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, Your, Point

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, Have Fun, 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

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

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

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, Rapper, My Own, Say

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, Trying, You, Take

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

Man, Time, Not Perfect, Perfect, Know

I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on. Nas

Love, Matter, Always, Going, Rap

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

Mind, Look, You, Your, Happening, Some

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

Time, Quality, Doing, Nothing, Working

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

Power, People, Generation, Try, Prophecy

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

Music, Memories, Strong, Way, Big, Lines

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, Mistakes, Moments, Curious, You

I think hip-hop could help rebuild America, once hip-hoppers own hip-hop... We are our own politicians, our own government, we have something to say. We're warriors. Soldiers. Nas

Think, Government, America, Help, Say

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

Daughter, Live, Good, Crazy, World, Know

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

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

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, Think, Me

With age comes common sense and wisdom. Nas

Wisdom, Age, Common Sense, Sense, Common

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it. Nas

Mind, Past, Words, Voice, Start, Week

I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was. Nas

Life, Regret, My Life, Tattoos, Some

No one's promised anything. You could have the biggest record on radio and sell no records. Nas

You, Radio, Anything, Sell, Records

I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out. Nas

Work, Music, Business, Time, Happy, End

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

Responsibility, Power, Day, Challenge

Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York. Nas

New York, Hip-Hop, New, Bigger, Than

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

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