Shawn Corey Carter, born December 4, 1969, known professionally as Jay-Z, is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. Jay-Z hails from Brooklyn, New York. He serves as a model for many budding rappers all around the world. Get Inspiration from these Jay Z quotes.
Jay Z Quotes
Jay Z finds inspiration in music, and he uses it as a platform to express his causes and convictions. He is well known to have many quotes. Learn from some of them below.
1. “I’d rather live enormous than live dormant.” – Jay-Z
2. “Be fluid. Treat each project differently. Be water, man. The best style is no style. Because styles can be figured out. And when you have no style they can’t figure you out.”
3. “Instincts are really important in business. I didn’t go to any business school 101 or anything like that, I pretty much just followed my instincts.” – Jay-Z
4. “I believe that the energy you put out in the world; you get back.”
5. “You can pay for school but you can’t buy class.” – Jay-Z
6. “Then ask: ‘Why is life worth livin’?’ Is it to gun for the sh*t that you want? To receive is great, but I lust givin’” – Jay-Z
7. “You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip. You can’t sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.” -Jay-Z
8. “I couldn’t even think about wanting to be something else; I wouldn’t let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn’t stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.” -Jay Z
9. It’s not like running GM, where there’s no emotional attachment. “Jay z quotes”
10. “Everything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain’t even a garbage can, you have faith!” -Jay-Z
Great Quotes
11. “Providing—that’s not love. Being there—that’s more important. I mean, we see that. We see that with all these rich socialites. They’re crying out for attention; they’re hurting for love. I’m not being judgmental–I’m just making an observation. They’re crying out for the love that maybe they didn’t get at home, and they got everything.”
12. “I’m inspired by life, and all sorts of things. You could say something right now and it would inspire me to write a song.” – Jay-Z
13. “Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.”
14. “It’s hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he’s like, ‘You speak so well!’ I’m like, ‘What do you mean? Do you understand that’s an insult?”
15. “I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over.” -Jay-Z
16. “Do me a favor. Don’t do me no favors. I handle mine.” – Jay-Z
17. “A wise man told me don’t argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can’t tell who is who.” “Jay z quotes”
18. “We all have the same fear—the fear of failure. We all have the fear of failure. As someone successful, the weight of all that you’ve done is on you.”
19. “I’d rather die enormous than live dormant.”-Jay-Z
20. “I will not lose, for even in defeat/There’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me” -Jay-Z
21. “I believe you can speak things into existence.” -Jay-Z
Music Quotes
22. “You make your first album, you make some money, and you feel like you still have to show face, like ‘I still go to the projects.’ I’m like, why? Your job is to inspire people from your neighborhood to get out. You grew up there. What makes you think it’s so cool?”
23. “We all have the same fear, the fear of failure. We all have the fear of failure…as someone successful the weight of all that you’ve done is on you.” – Jay-Z, No Hustling Backwards
24. “I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.” -Jay-Z
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25. “What people do in their own homes is their business, and you can choose to love whoever you love. That’s their business. It’s no different than discriminating against blacks. It’s discrimination, plain and simple” -Jay-Z
26. “Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain’t trying to survive I’m trying to live it to the limit and love it alive” “Jay z quotes”
27. “I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.” – Jay-Z
Valuable Lesson
28. “Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.”
29. “I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.”
30. “Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.” – Jay-Z
31. “All I got is dreams. Nobody else believes. Nobody else can see. Nobody else but me.”
32. “Difficult takes a day; impossible takes a week.”
33. “Jealousy a weak emotion.” -Jay-Z
34. “Next time you see the homie and his rims spinnin’, just know my mind is workin’ just like them…the rims that is.” – Jay-Z
35. “In the end, you can’t censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.”
36. “I see I said, jealousy I said, got the whole world mad at me, I said to my one of a kind self.” – Jay-Z
37. “Ain’t nothin’ wrong with the aim, just gotta change the target.” -Jay-Z
38. “I believe you can speak things into existence.” – Jay-Z
39. “I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice—anything just to get a paper bag. And I’d write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.”
40. “The responsibility is to keep pushing it forward, and not relying on the same old gimmicks. You have to push it forward.” “Jay z quotes”
41. “I’m far from being god, but I work god damn hard.”
Music Quotes
42. “I have a lot of happiness, but that doesn’t mean that the two (money and happiness) equate to each other…they’re not tied to each other…”- Jay-Z
43. “I got mouths to feed til they put flowers on me.”
44. “A wise man once told me don’t argue with fools, because from a distance you can’t tell who is who.” – Jay-Z
45. “I’m like a dog. I never speak, but I understand.”
46. “Gotta keep it peace like a buddhist Nobody gonna Wesley snipe me It’s less than likely, Move back, Let I breathe Jedi knight, The more space I get the better I write, (Oh) Never I write, but, if, ever I write, I need the space to say whatever I like.”-Jay-Z
47. “They say you put the right artist with the right track in the studio, leave the door cracked, and let G-d in.” – Jay-Z
48. “The genius thing that we did was, we didn’t give up.” -Jay-Z
49. “Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it’s attainable. I didn’t do it any other way than through hip-hop.” -Jay-Z
50. “No one came to our neighborhoods with stand-up jobs and showed us there’s a different way. Maybe, had I seen different role models, maybe I’d have turned on to that.”
51. “You have to find your genius level talent, and then to apply it in a way that supports that genius level talent.” “Jay z quotes”
52. “I’m not afraid of dying I’m afraid of not trying” -Jay-Z
53. “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.”
Inspiring Quotes
54. “Life is about balance, you have to have time for work, and time for play. If you don’t allow these two things to co-exist you have an imbalance.” – Jay-Z
55. “Don’t tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.”
56. “Some said, ‘How’d you fly?’ I said, ‘From not being afraid of trying to fly.’”
57. “We change people through conversation, not through censorship.” -Jay-Z
58. “All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I’m feeling at the time, whatever direction I’m heading in, and hopefully, everyone follows” “Jay z quotes”
60. “I couldn’t even think about wanting to be something else: I wouldn’t let myself visualize another life. But I wrote because I couldn’t stop. It was a release, a mental exercise, a way of keeping sane.” – Jay-Z
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Success Quotes
61. “Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.”
62. “Do things that are true to you. Most things that I’m involved with is being creative and things that I like. Get involved with things that you love and be sure to have a standard and integrity with what you’re doing.” – Jay-Z
63. “Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama’s running so we all can fly.” -Jay-Z
64. “The burden of poverty isn’t just that you don’t always have the things you need, it’s the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you’d do anything to lift that burden.”
65. “There are a lot of things that I lived in the street that helped me in the music business… I knew what characters not to have around me.” – Jay-Z
66. “It was drive: we toured the whole eastern seaboard…we would just drive ourselves and do a show with just 20 people in the show.” – Full Video Jay-Z on Law of attraction part 2 of 2
67. “Primarily, I see myself as so much more than a rapper. I really believe I am the voice for a lot of people who don’t have that microphone or who can’t rap.”
Entertaining Quotes
68. “You have to realize what’s behind it (criticism), because I don’t know these guys (critics), but I know it’s more of a competitive thing, and it just comes with the job.” – Jay-Z
69. “By far, for me, the most important thing is inspiration.” “Jay z quotes”
70. “Either love me, or leave me alone.” – Jay-Z
71. “If y’all can’t already see, I ain’t worried about ya’ll, ‘cause I’m already me.”
72. “I’m inspired by life and all sorts of things. You could say something right now and it would inspire me to write a song.”
73. “Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I’m a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?”
74. “My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I’m feeling at the time, whatever direction I’m heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.”
75. “My brands are an extension of me. They’re close to me.” -Jay-Z
Jay Z is a prosperous businessman and is wedded to Beyoncé Knowles, the former lead singer of Destiny’s Child. He has inspired so many through his music and sayings in years past.
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