Nas Quotes

American - Musician Born: September 14, 1973

Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle. - Nas

Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle. Nas

Struggle, Appreciate, You, Point, Your

I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up. - Nas

I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up. Nas

Life, Beautiful, Fun, Have Fun, Win, You

I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up. Nas

Life, Morning, Enjoy Life, Wake Up, Now

Your look reflects what's happening in your mind. You gotta have some swag to you. Nas

Mind, Look, You, Your, Gotta, Happening

You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself. Nas

Time, Yourself, Crazy, You, Trying, Out

DJs play a big responsibility of what hip-hop is doing... At the end of the day, it's up to us to control and to own hip-hop. DJs need to challenge us rappers. They got so much power, they need to challenge us. Nas

Power, Responsibility, Challenge, End

The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me. - Nas

The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me. Nas

Mistakes, Me, Flaws, Real, Make

I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know? Nas

Time, Man, Not Perfect, Perfect, You

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words. Nas

Music, Words, Voice, You, Feel, Street

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career. Nas

Confidence, Great, Experience, People

I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission. Nas

Time, Mission, News, My Own, Own, Got

Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper - it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do. Nas

People, Me, Doing, Some People, Rapper

Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy. Nas

Power, People, Generation, Try, Prophecy

With age comes common sense and wisdom. Nas

Wisdom, Age, Common Sense, Sense, Common

When you have a daughter, you want to protect her from the things that I've seen out there, you know, the things that's out there that ain't good for her. It's a crazy world we live in. Nas

Good, Daughter, Live, World, Crazy, You

I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning. Nas

Life, Morning, Opportunity, Me, Wake Up

I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better. Nas

Me, Better, American, Country, See, Just

My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely. Nas

Memories, Music, Strong, Way, Rap, Big

When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend. Nas

Respect, You, Know, Want, Meet, Faithful

I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me. Nas

Life, Politics, People, Me, Thought

The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those - those are growing pains. Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I'm not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey. Nas

Respect, Curious, Mistakes, Moments, You

Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me - ever. Nas

Me, Feel, Too Much, Praise, Right, Just

Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up. Nas

Time, Africa, Years, Way, Up, Standing

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling. Nas

Soul, Me, Feeling, Street, Sound

I can't control what people think. They know who I am. Nas

People, I Am, Control, Think, Know, Who

I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing. Nas

Time, Quality, Doing, Nothing, Go, Out

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