Jay-Z
Related When you make a solo record, it's you. It's your name. It has to be the right songs for how ... JENNY LEWIS DREW BARRYMORE If you really want to be a music producer, stop watching 'Friends' when you get home from sc... AFROJACK JOHNNY CASH Getting to No. 1 makes everyone feel better; of course it does. But it's swings and roundabouts ... PAUL WELLER ELTON JOHN BRANDON BOYD Especially when the expectations become so high of you, you always remember the last record that mig... MISSY ELLIOTT I could do another tour, make a record that's very similar, do similar venues. Or I could make a... FLUME RAY CHARLES JERRY SEINFELD LIL UZI VERT DIANE LANE ALEXA VEGA The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm ... T BONE BURNETT JOHN MELLENCAMP KEVIN HART SCOTT ADKINS DANIEL RADCLIFFE Jay-Z is as politically correct as some of the politicians. He's safe. There's points when y... CURTIS JACKSON DR. DRE Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and th... JASON REITMAN ADRIANA LIMA AYELET WALDMAN As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putti... ISAAC BROCK Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON MIRANDA KERR The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they ... LARRY BRILLIANT There's this thing about authenticity when you rap, right? Whether or not it's real, it has ... DAVEED DIGGS Often, some people dress something up to make it sound scientific, use scientific words, call themse... ELISE ANDREW ALISON SWEENEY AARON NEVILLE RAY CHARLES HALSEY NICK VUJICIC There's plenty of people who can sing OK that make terrific records, and I love them from afar. ... DAVID FOSTER I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that&... T. C. BOYLE Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other,... FRANK GEHRY Health food shops can make people feel very important; it's like a brand new religion with peopl... PIPPA EVANS STEVE PREFONTAINE AIMEE MANN Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do,... HARLEY QUINN SMITH CORY MONTEITH JOHN LASSETER I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still fu... CONSTANCE WU ADAM DRIVER Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It'... YELAWOLF It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON SAM SMITH KIRK HAMMETT When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you ... CHRIS LILLEY Every time I make a record, it's make-or-break time. I hope I always have that mentality - that&... DARIUS RUCKER When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me ... JOSE GONZALEZ It's like trying to describe what you feel when you're standing on the rim of the Grand Cany... JACK SCHMITT EDWARD HIRSCH KEVIN NEALON DR. DRE MAC MILLER DRAYMOND GREEN There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there... IMRAN AMED But I think it's hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it&... TY SEGALL RIHANNA 'Just Can't Let You Go' is a song about passion. It's when you have such a strong pa... MANIKA It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. Whe... NATHAN FILLION I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album s... FLUME I always love to look at something that I couldn't make, because I feel it's enlightening. I... JONATHAN ANDERSON I love TV. I love being behind the scenes on a TV show but there's something about, I don't ... SIMON COWELL JAMES CORDEN LUPE FIASCO ANNA KENDRICK BEBE REXHA I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but n... SADIE JONES DANIEL TOSH When I make a fist, it's strong, and you can't tear it apart. As long as there's unity, ... ARA PARSEGHIAN HENRY ROLLINS OLIVIA COLMAN I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then sudden... FLUME Emotions are messy and hard to figure out. Hard to know where you start and the next person stops. E... SPIKE JONZE It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON In hip-hop, what you have is you have a lot of formulaic-type bands or rappers that come up. They sa... SIR MIX-A-LOT ERYKAH BADU CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS JOAN CUSACK ALEXA CHUNG ALEXA CHUNG You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not e... ROBERT CRUMB BARRY GIBB If something's gonna make you happy, and you know it's gonna make you happy, and it's wh... BRETT YOUNG You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newt... CRISS ANGEL FRANCOIS NARS I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You se... YOUNG JEEZY STEVE AOKI LIL WAYNE GEORGE CLOONEY JOHN MAYER So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like... ADAM RICH I'm not trying to be self-serving, but you know, you get to Hollywood, and if you want to make s... TERRY ZWIGOFF
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It's the worst when you're kissing someone who's not a good kisser, and you're tryin... 
When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'... 
Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't ... 
When we make records, it's hard to pinpoint one thing that inspires a record. It's usually a... 
With singing, the name of the game is to make yourself believable. When somebody hears you sing a so... 
When you make a TV show, they always say you're a guest in someone's home. Online, you'r... 
The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That'... 
To be honest, relationships with the opposite sex are the most challenging things I've done. You... 
If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that's when you... 
Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just ex... 
I know a dramatic role is going to happen, but you just got to be patient, you know? It's going ... 
I personally think a fight scene is the most cinematic thing you can witness because all the element... 
When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who y... 
It's always been difficult to make a good record. To be perfectly honest with you, it's real... 
I love old-fashioned manners, as long as it's not forced. I can tell when it's natural or wh... 
But I really feel strongly that our kids do way too much homework. The research is on my side. It... 
When you can, it's good to make healthy choices. But, I also believe in balance. It's not ab... 
One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to... 
When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's a... 
Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dea... 
You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you wan... 
Often times we feel like either we can't make a world of difference, or we feel that it's no... 
Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something bea... 
I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about th... 
It's really annoying when you're trying to get to know someone and she doesn't pay atten... 
When you take something that's inert, and through motion, give it life, make it appear to be ali... 
With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater o... 
I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... 
Because of things like iTunes and streaming and social networking, it's destroyed music. It'... 
You're trying to write about something that's sacred. You're trying to bring the serious... 
When I would see my friends with their kids, I was envious that you can use children to get out of j... 
When you feel sad, it's okay. It's not the end of the world. Everyone has those days when yo... 
What's my status? I'm just a guy from Saginaw, Michigan, trying to make it. But you know, pr... 
Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It ... 
You can either hope and pray you don't get picked on, or you can, in a way, almost make yourself... 
Some stuff I don't even put out. I'll just be home, happy, creating something for myself, an... 
I'm attracted to things that are in direct opposition to something that I've just done. It&#... 
It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit recor... 
It's funny... you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywoo... 
It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to ... 
I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as tha... 
As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about... 
You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was ... 
Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's ... 
I'm in love with lots of different things. I do love love, though. I don't think love should... 
I don't think love should make you feel uneasy. When you feel sick, I don't think that's... 
When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care... 
When you photograph someone, you have to make them feel good, and you know that they want to look go... 
Dance music is an emotional journey. It's how well you can make people feel something that they ... 
I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel ... 
There is something very unsettling about being with someone when they die. People say it's peace... 
It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you. 
Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in ... 
My mom had early rap records, like Jimmy Spicer. In the middle of the records was a turntable and a ... 
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because i... 
Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good ti... 
I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate. 
What I don't understand is these people who go on the street wearing riding clothes, and they ha... 
The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets. 
Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder ... 
It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. 
If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest... 
Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar... 
At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful. 
I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend. 
My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was all... 
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. 
What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are. 
An old man loved is winter with flowers. 