Rap Quotes - Page 34

Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney.

On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.

Sexual intercourse is a gift that says, "Do not open until marriage." If you've already unwrapped it, wrap it up again!

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

I was making photographs of the world long before I was a photographer.

Girl I don't wanna share you We could be together, but you scared to I ain't gonna leave you My people tell me I should And when I blow I hope you know That I could have any girl I choose But as time goes by, baby all I'm gonna want is you

Throw dirt on me, and grow a wild flower

A lot of people are burning' C.D.'s. There are a lot of people burnin' peoples stuff, and that hurts a lot of rappers.

Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.

Every night I pray to God: 'Please, no more wack MC's.'

People who go out and try to be a rebel at night, Try to make up for the fact that they settled in life.

Don't rap if you do not practice.

I've been on the songs of all these rappers that put out an album, and my music is still better.

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

If you finish like a photograph, on the other hand, the picture has as much personality as a photograph.

Be a father, if not, why bother, son? A boy can make 'em, but a man can raise one. If you did it, admit it and stick with it.

Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.

You should keep a photograph of Mick Lyons on the mantlepiece to keep children away from the fire

I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now.

I ain't the captain of the yacht, but I'm on the boat; I ain't acting what I'm not, knowing that I don't. You niggaz acting like you will, but I know you won't. Man, I read between the lines of the eyes of your brows, Your handshake ain't matchin your smile.

If the artist only reproduces superficial features as photography does, if he copies the lineaments of a face exactly, without reference to character, he deserves no admiration. The resemblance which he ought to obtain is that of the soul.

A photograph is a biography of a moment.

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.