Hips quotes
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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
-- Ajay Naidu -
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I am taking belly dancing now. My hips are double-jointed, so I can do it really easily.
-- Alexa Vega -
I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive.
-- Angel Haze -
I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.
-- Angel Haze -
Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.
-- Ariel Rechtshaid -
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Yes,†Howie said solemnly. “I can teach you how to be more ‘street’â€. “For God’s sake…†“Or is it ‘urban’? I can’t remember. Anyway, I can teach you, grasshopper. Or hip-hopper.
-- Barry Lyga -
I need to get back to work,†Patch said. He gave me a once-over that lingered a bit below the hips. “Killer skirt. Deadly legs.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
Always keep an 'out' in your hip pocket.
-- Bevo Howard -
Back before I injured my hip, I thought going to the gym was for wimps.
-- Bo Jackson -
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I have my mother's hips...I have an apple bottom.
-- Brendon Urie -
I listen to all kinds of songs. There's something to be learned from every type of music and from the one making it, whether it's pop or jazz or hip-hop.
-- Brian McKnight -
I don't know what he has. A pulled groin. A hip flexor. I don't know. A pulled something. I never pulled anything. You can't pull fat.
-- Bruce Coslet -
You don't decide you're hip. It just happens that way.
-- Cannonball Adderley -
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I love hip hop music, I make hip hop music.
-- Charlie Hunnam -
I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.
-- Christopher Meloni -
The gist of the Twist is chiefly in the hips
-- Chubby Checker -
I am to hip-hop what Obama is to politics
-- Common -
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I think hip-hop can be prophetic and progressive, and at the same time, the dominant forms tend to be homophobic, misogynistic and something that we need to critically call into question.
-- Cornel West -
There's always been a hip-hop element to my trousers.
-- Damon Albarn -
MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough
-- Dan Fogelberg -
What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.
-- David Foster Wallace -
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I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.
-- Derek Luke -
I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.
-- Dr. Dre -
I'm not a big radio guy, I don't listen to whatever is the hip new thing.
-- Dustin Diamond -
My favorite era of hip-hop was between '85-'89. That was the era that got me to love hip-hop.
-- El-P -
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The emergence of the independent hip-hop scene has replaced what we called the "underground scene". It's what the underground scene has evolved into: actual businesses.
-- El-P -
Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'
-- Eminem -
Hip-hop is ever changing but you'll always have the pack. And you'll always have those people who are separated from the pack.
-- Eminem -
I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.
-- Eminem -
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I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.
-- Eric Bogosian -
Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.
-- Erykah Badu -
Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.
-- Erykah Badu -
When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.
-- Etgar Keret -
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I don't believe I've ever played a hip dude. I don't think I would have the wherewithal to do that.
-- Eugene Levy -
I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.
-- Evel Knievel -
I make music for the hips, not the head.
-- Fatboy Slim -
It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.
-- Fred Allen -
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I shoot from the hip.
-- Gordon Ramsay -
Hip-hop didn't invent anything… hip-hop re-invented everything.
-- Grandmaster Caz -
Hip-Hop is my vehicle to scientific and universal enlightenment
-- GZA -
My career never suffered from my not being skinny. I never did catwalk work because I was always too big. I couldn't get the clothes over my hips.
-- Heidi Klum -
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Take it from me, its hip to be square.
-- Huey Lewis -
The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.
-- Ice Cube -
You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
-- Ice T -
Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
-- Ice T -
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She put her hand on her hip. "Where are you going?" "To the boat. You called me Lord Bill again. That means we're cool." Cerise slapped her forehead with the heel of her hand and followed him.
-- Ilona Andrews -
Hip-hop is about the human condition; it's about people's lives.
-- Immortal Technique -
Ten seconds on the lips and a lifetime on the hips.
-- Jack LaLanne -
Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.
-- Jay-Z -
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Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.
-- Jay-Z -
I'm a Pilates person. It's great. I had a hip problem. I had a chronic back, a pinched nerve and a hip problem and it's completely solved all of it. I love it. It makes me feel like I'm taller.
-- Jennifer Aniston -
Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.
-- Jerry Saltz -
Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip.
-- Jesse H. Jones -
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This big fat woman bumped me on the floor, she was rarin' to go, she was rarin' to go. Then she did a dip, I almost broke my hip.
-- Joe Tex -
I'm a big hip hop fan.
-- Jonah Hill -
I have a stab wound on my left hip and one on my thigh and a slash mark across my right calf. I have a bottle stab wound on my left calf.
-- Jonah Lomu -
I may be Jewish, but my religion is hip-hop.
-- Josh Peck -
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If you asked me what pop is right now. I'd say hip hop.
-- Justin Timberlake -
I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
-- Karrine Steffans -
Hip-hop is not the problem, our reality is the problem.
-- Kendrick Lamar -
I really just like acting. I'm not always aware of what is hip and what is popular and what is zeitgeist.
-- Kevin McKidd -
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I am who I am, in terms of shooting from the hip occasionally.
-- Kevin Pietersen -
A moment on the lips is a lifetime on the hips.
-- Khloe Kardashian -
I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for hip-hop, I needed to step it up if I wanted to make myself known.
-- Kid Cudi -
I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.
-- Kid Rock -
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Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live
-- KRS-One -
Hip is the knowledge and Hop is the movement..
-- KRS-One -
You are not doing hip hop; you ARE hip hop.
-- KRS-One -
So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live.
-- KRS-One -
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The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.
-- Kurtis Blow -
Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.
-- Kurtis Blow -
Everyone's hip to the fact that we all do things to accentuate our looks - and it's much more accepted
-- Kyan Douglas -
Everyone has the notion that hip-hop is messy and loose, but there's also another level to it.
-- Laurieann Gibson -
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Hip-Hop started out in the heart
-- Lauryn Hill -
There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't.
-- Lee Morgan -
It's either hip or it ain't.
-- Lee Morgan -
Hip-Hop aint dead, it just had a heart attack.
-- Lil Wayne -
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Especially when I'm in the gym, I get really motivated by hip-hop.
-- Lindsey Vonn -
Janie’s hip buzzes again. Maybe she'll have to have her whole leg amputated, she thinks sadly. That would really suck.
-- Lisa McMann -
anyone who used the word hip probably wasn't.
-- Lisa Unger -
I want to make music as good as Radiohead, as good as Coldplay. I can make hip-hop as good as anybody.
-- Lupe Fiasco -
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Hip-hop is just something I actually know how to do. But I always had aspirations to participate in other forms of music.
-- Lupe Fiasco -
Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him.
-- Lynn Johnston -
I ain’t no hipster, but girl I can make your hips stir.
-- Mac Miller -
Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy.
-- Mayer Hawthorne -
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Hip to the fact that well-behaved women rarely make history, Diane [Wilson] has already inspired a new movement of totally uncontrollable, irresistible and unreasonable women!
-- Medea Benjamin -
A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.
-- Merrill Markoe -
I still gotta reacquaint myself with the hip-hop audience.
-- Method Man -
If you've got hips, you can't be a gymnast or dancer. That ruled me out.
-- Mia Hamm -
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Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.
-- Michael Eric Dyson -
Michael Jordan is sort of...the hip-hop version of Dr. J
-- Michael Jordan -
Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.
-- Michael Rapaport -
Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.
-- Michael Rapaport -
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Martin O'Neill, standing, hands on hips, stroking his chin.
-- Mike Ingham -
If you're trying to be hip, be hip.
-- Miles Davis -
Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.
-- Missy Elliot -
Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.
-- Mos Def -
