Best Budden Quotes & Sayings

Joe Budden TV is life through the eyes of Joe Budden. You've gotta go check it out - it's pretty fun. — Joe Budden

I get a lot of support from the West Coast. But I think that's beginning to change. I think, as the awareness goes up, and as I continue to be consistent, more people from my area come around, and they're converted into Joe Budden fans. — Joe Budden

Music kept me sane. I love music too much. I'm too passionate about music to let anything or anyone come in between me and my love. — Joe Budden

I could've never envisioned things goin' this way in a million years. But, I'm a firm believer in my higher power havin' a plan, and he's never wrong, and he's not open to suggestions. I'm sure that everything [has] happened for a reason. — Joe Budden

For Joe Budden fans, and for Joe Budden, I like to focus on the creative side, and havin' a thought and bein' able to execute it in the booth. I think that song best displays me being able to do that. — Joe Budden

It sometimes becomes difficult to tell when you're even creating a buzz. You know, everything in this game, it so relies on timing that that part is really important, and it's something that everyone tries to pay a lot of attention to. — Joe Budden

In my world, even sure bets are not certain;
'Cause you'll get the picture, then find out it's the cropped version. — Joe Budden

I remember a day and time when the streets indicated what was hot online, and now I think it's starting to reverse a little bit. — Joe Budden

Life is like a beach chair when you can afford one — Joe Budden

I read every fan forum and every blog, and every message board, and every chat room. I read it all. There's nothing online that I'm not aware of. — Joe Budden

Even at my lowest I was sittin on my high stool. — Joe Budden

I'm not in a competition with any other artist, anything that's goin' on - I'm strictly competing with myself. — Joe Budden

I always call niggas fools for wanting to learn the hard way. When I'm really the fool for tryna teach 'em. When the blinds leading the blind. You can't reach 'em. If niggas ain't as hungry as you then why feed 'em? Niggas ain't tryna be lead then why lead 'em? Having big problems with your dogs, why breed em? — Joe Budden

Like I said, as long as I'm consistent and I try to put my best foot forward, and work as hard as I possibly can, everything else will fall into place - God'll take care of everything. — Joe Budden

I'm proud to say I'm the only Slaughterhouse member who has not rewritten a verse yet, and that's the ongoing joke in the group, 'cause everybody has rewrote their sh*t except for me. — Joe Budden

I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough. — Joe Budden

And I'll never let myself down..How so? I don't expect too much from me. — Joe Budden

I know that I'm kind of a big deal online, but I think that some of that is starting to seep into the streets, and you want to kind of continue to make sure it does that. — Joe Budden

If I'm trading bars with somebody, it certainly is not because I have a release coming. Joe Budden prides himself on the music and not the sales aspect. — Joe Budden

Most important to me is being able to release music and have an astounding relationship with whoever would be distributing the music. — Joe Budden

Why try to fit in when you a stand out? — Joe Budden

I would have had a clause in my contract; I would've definitely put some fine print in my contract that said, "If the president leaves, I'm leaving." That'd be the bottom line. — Joe Budden

Success to me is self-determined, the life I live today, to come from a kid strung out on angel dust, homeless, at some points sleeping in the street. No money, not knowing where the next meal was coming from. No sex, no relationships, people that didn't love me, didn't care about me, to where I am today ... that's successful. When I signed my record deal I always wanted to be respected by my peers for my ability and my skill level. — Joe Budden

I think Def Jam happened to be one of the labels that really didn't have a good grip on things that were going on. I'll say that - that's my political answer. — Joe Budden

Whatever you goin' through, could always be much worse,
Don't make a mistake, mistakin' your blessings for a curse. — Joe Budden

If I were to go the major route, again, attention would probably be the first and foremost. You want attention, you want support, you want to be treated properly, and I don't wanna have to go anywhere and teach people how to treat me. As far as money, acclaim and fame, those things are a plus - accolades - they're all great. — Joe Budden

In this day and age, you gotta be a profiler to really know who people are, which most of us are not. So, we need time and life to start happening for people to really show their trust colors. — Joe Budden

Project X now, but it started as a Hunger Game. — Joe Budden

Our potential is so great that we have the ability to change our lives, our surroundings and the global world with just an idea — Bruce Budden

It's hard - it's difficult to tell when your buzz is at its peak. — Joe Budden

I chose the name "Padded Room," because, when I'm in the booth, it would be the padded room. When I'm in the booth, I can say a lot of things and speak about a lot of things that normally I wouldn't be able to speak about to a friend or to family or to a crowd. A lot of times, the things that I say, if you had to categorize it, they would probably call me nuts or crazy. So, you add that aspect of "The Padded Room," which would be almost like an insane asylum. — Joe Budden

Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else. — Joe Budden

I have some things that I've been workin' on, such as delivery, wordplay, breath control, just a lot of other things that artists work on, that the listener may not be listening for. — Joe Budden

Sometimes you gotta stand by your failures to recognize your success — Joe Budden

I loved love til' it resented me, and if it's still a stranger then I love who it pretends to be. — Joe Budden

God I hear you giving me an earfull but I'm gonna cruise in 5th gear until I'm near you. — Joe Budden