Drake quotes
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“I don't see perfection as far as a visual image of perfection. "Perfection" to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, "I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do." Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection.”
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“I got my eyes on you You're everything that I see, I want your hot love and emotion Endlessly.”
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“When you have a valid opinion around, it takes a lot of the pressure off.”
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“Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.”
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“I used to always crack jokes in class. I was a good liar and a good talker. I was just good. I was my father's son. I was slick. When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.”
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“Never say that you regret something, because at one point in your life, you wanted it.”
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“Just because I had a winner, it doesn't mean I'm gonna be like, "OK, I need a new 'Successful.'" That's silly. I just don't want anything to sound like anything else, which I hope is everybody's vision.”
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“I show up knowing exactly who I was and never leave as myself.”
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“I like all different kinds of music. I never heavily molded myself after rappers. Sometimes they say when you think something and you go to say it, you lose a lot of color about what you're trying to say, so to me the best rappers are the people that don't lose that color.”
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“Dying to meet your girlfriends that you said you might bring. If they're the ones that tell you that you do the right thing.”
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“I want to get better. That's the only way to progress. So I'm just young having fun making music.”
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“My dreams are who I'm racin wit but you can see I'm pacin it so that I'm always chasin it.”
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“People only talk about me and sweaters because I don't give them anything else to talk about.”
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“Life becomes difficult when you're in this public eye, and I think that we all relate to each other and I try and really talk about it in my music.”
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“Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship.”
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“There's two elements to rap: having the thoughts, and then being a great rapper.”
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“When you look ahead and darkness is all you see, faith and determination will pull you through.”
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“Me being biracial, me being from Canada but having success in the States, I have all these moments in my life where I'm jumping roof to roof. Black to white. Singing and rapping.”
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“No I'm not saying I'm the nicest I just life like it.”
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“When you have passionate fans, they feel like they're a part of your career.”
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“Imma sip until I feel it, Imma smoke until it's done.”
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“You put the tea in the kettle and light it. Put your hand on the metal and feel it.. but do you even feel it anymore?”
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“I've been down this road before and yeah I skidded but forget it”
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“Worried bout ya followers? You need to get ya dollars up.”
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“You don't make stupid internet videos or show people you have too much free time, you just say the right things and they'll be like, Damn this dude's a real person and I can relate to that. That can make somebody's life, that can make somebody's day, that can be a line that they never forget.”
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“Drake just stands for Do Right And Kill Everything”
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“Since I started, I've always been giving my music away for free. I've always kind of done it for the people. I don't want to lose my fans completely because they support me in a way that's more than just listening to my music. They support me like we're friends. They support me like they have emotions invested in it.”
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“That's a good thing for me. I own everything, I have 100% creative control, I own all my masters, everything. I'm blessed to be in that situation. If we sell some records, I think we'll just add to the historic pace that this has been going at.”
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“I write best about two things, which is evident from the cover of So Far Gone: the constant quest to understand love and money.”
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“Are we acting like a couple? I'm just trying to get it straight. Cause I'm over here convinced that it's too early for mistakes.”
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“I'm obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don't want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be.”
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“Six months is the most you can ask of any fan in this day and age, with the Internet and all these new artists. I understand that my music is in a lot of mediums. Some people want me to make an R&B album. Some people want me to never sing again. I just don't want people to be able to draw comparisons between my old songs and my new ones.”
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“I've always treated my city like some shoulder pads.”
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“I always view my music like a city at night, like Atlanta. I view my music in lights. So Far Gone would be my experiences in Toronto at night.”
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“15, 16, I mean, 17, 18, is when I was really getting into the hip hop phase and really studying the things that I needed to study as far as learning about flows and learning about lyrics.”
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“Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys.”
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“I don't talk to the groupies. I talk to nice, upstanding women. The groupies don't get my attention. It's the women that I like.”
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“There's different girls in my life that play different roles and I see at different times, but collectively they kind of make up the roster of happiness for me.”
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“I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection”
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“I wish that we lived in a time and a generation where people would stop viewing my honesty as overly emotional. People always act like I spend my life crying in a dark room. I don't, I'm good. I'm a man.”
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“I'm still fly, I'm sky high and I dare anybody to try and cut my wings”
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“I'm actually 100% independent. I'm not a Universal artist. I'm signed to myself.”
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“I bet if I give all my love then nothing's gonna tear us apart.”
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“A girl should have two things: a smile, and a guy who inspires it.”
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“I took a chance with my heart and I feel it taking over”
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“Boys will break your heart. Real men will pick up the pieces.”
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“The girl or the world, you see someone gotta lose. I thought I could have it all, do I really gotta choose?”
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“Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul.”
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“Don't ever forget the moment you began to doubt, transitionin from fittin in to standin out.”
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“Never forgetting from where I came and no matter where I'm headed I promise to stay the same”
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“They say if you get her, you could understand her better and she known to be a cheater, but that's only if you let her.”
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“World series attitude, champagne bottle life, nothing ever changes so tonight is like tomorrow night.”
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“Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.”
-- DrakeSource : "Watch Drake's High School Graduation Speech" by Evan Minsker, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2012.
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“I am what everybody in my past don't want me to be”
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“I'm tryna do it all tonight, I got plans. I got a certain lust for life, and as it stands.”
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“I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.”
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“The girl that I wanna save is like a danger to my health Try being wit somebody that wanna be somebody else.”
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“Life is like a confused teacher...first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson”
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“The more you get to know a person, the more attractive they become to you. Because everything beautiful you see on the inside of them, suddenly you see on the outside of them, too.”
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“A lot of people sayin’ ***** me. Problem is they be telling everybody but me.”
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“Being humble doesn't work as well as being aware.”
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“I'm the type to say a prayer and then go get what I just prayed for”
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“No matter how dirty your past is, your future is still spotless.”
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“I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures”
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“Look at where I landed, you would think I planned it. I'm just doin me and you can never understand it.”
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“Don't lie to the girl of your life for the hoe of the night”
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“There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it's all just noise that lets me know that I'm relevant.”
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“I do a lot of things hopin I never had to fit in, so tryin to keep up with my progress is like a dead end.”
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“I know you left me once, but I came right back to find you. Even though I like being in your past, you got a bright future behind you.”
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“You got your guards up, I do too, there's things we might discover. Cause you got a past and I do too, we're perfect for each other.”
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“Don't listen to the lies, I swear they all lies. You know I could be your knight in shining Armor All tires.”
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“They say I'm old news. Well who the new star? Cause if I'm goin anywhere it's probably too far.”
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“Never pay attention to the rumors and what they assume”
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“Better late than never but never late is better. They tell me time is money well we'll spend it together.”
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“When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.”
-- DrakeSource : Source: www.motherjones.com
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“Drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments.”
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“I can't hear the critics talking over the applause.”
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“When the lights don't glow the same way that they used to and I finally get a moment to myself, I will realize you were everything I'm missing and you'll tell me you're in love with someone else.”
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“I live for the nights that I can't remember with the people that I won't forget.”
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“Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.”
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“There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.”
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“They keep telling me don't save you. If I ignore all that advice and something isn't right then who will I complain to?”
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“You can't have my heart, the doctor told me I'd be dead without it.”
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“Soap opera rappers, all these ***** sound like 'All My Children'.”
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“We doin it big. Look at what I done. Look at where I'm is. It's only just begun.”
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“I'm busy gettin rich. I don't want trouble. I made enough for 2 niggas, boy, stunt double.”
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“Stay keeping my cup full so I'm extra charged like a state tax.”
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“I wanna take it deeper than money, pussy, vacation and influence a generation that's lacking in patience”
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