Missy Elliott Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 31 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Missy Elliott.
Famous Quotes By Missy Elliott
My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father. — Missy Elliott
No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing. — Missy Elliott
When you turn on your radio, you don't always want to hear about someone shootin' some person. Even if that's the lifestyle they live, people don't always want to hear it. — Missy Elliott
I used to put all my doll babies on my bed with their hands up and I would do full shows for them. I'd even do the screaming and clapping. I was bugging to be a singer. — Missy Elliott
I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor. — Missy Elliott
When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn't go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist - so that's what I did. — Missy Elliott
My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects. — Missy Elliott
Now everybody's sampling. — Missy Elliott
I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine. — Missy Elliott
I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland. — Missy Elliott
I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans. — Missy Elliott
You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time. — Missy Elliott
I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day. — Missy Elliott
Everybody is doing the same old thing. — Missy Elliott
I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool. — Missy Elliott
When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are. — Missy Elliott
I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father. — Missy Elliott
I want people to feel the heat while they walk down the street and they're just kickin' it. — Missy Elliott
Pop that, pop that, jiggle that fat
Don't stop, get it till ya clothes get wet — Missy Elliott
The double chin's not good for the red carpet. — Missy Elliott
I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on. — Missy Elliott
Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music. — Missy Elliott
I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist. — Missy Elliott
I'm blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that's not the real dream I had. The real dream was to make enough money to take care of all the pain and suffering that my mother has been through. — Missy Elliott
I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got. — Missy Elliott
And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I've done that. So I feel happy about doing that. — Missy Elliott
It's just that back then we didn't know that was considered being a coproducer. I would sit on the side and say what I wanted musically, but at the time we thought if you aren't the one playing it, you don't get the credit. Now you'll start seeing my name listed as producer. — Missy Elliott