Best Vince Staples Quotes & Sayings

Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better. — Vince Staples

The happiest people, the ones you like the most, they're never worried about being rich. — Vince Staples

Some people make their best music when life is horrible. — Vince Staples

I'm not really scared of a lot of things. I'm scared of possums. And I'm scared of raccoons sometimes, it depends on how big it is - I'm scared of the smaller raccoons because the bigger ones are slower. — Vince Staples

So many things come from people's parents lying to them about the truth about things. I feel like, once those ideas die with people, we'll be good in a couple of generations. — Vince Staples

You're either ghetto or you're not. — Vince Staples

I'm getting old! My back hurts, I got asthma, I just been listening to Amy Winehouse, trying not to cry. Life's crazy. — Vince Staples

I hate when a show has an age limit. Like a little tiny child is standing outside, like, 'Hey, I wanted to go but I couldn't.' That sucks. — Vince Staples

My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet. — Vince Staples

The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most. — Vince Staples

I want to have an impact because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through. — Vince Staples

You have to be able to differentiate between the different areas of life. It shows that we're all separate people, we're all different, but we're all the same ... — Vince Staples

Drugs are horrible; I say no to drugs. I've never done drugs in my life. — Vince Staples

Where I come from, there's no common enemy, there's no "why." There's no, "I hate white people." — Vince Staples

If your children don't fight, they won't love each other when they get older! It's a common thing. — Vince Staples

It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore! — Vince Staples

I remember, once, my sister used to tell me that they found me in the trash-can when I was younger, so one time I pushed my sister into a trash-can - I put it over her head and pushed her down the street. And then after that, we been close ever since. — Vince Staples

The work is the understanding of the people that you're speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work. — Vince Staples

Care and pity are two different things. — Vince Staples

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for. — Vince Staples

It really hurts my feelings when people are mean to old people, or when people yell at their little kids. Just ask them what's wrong, bro. I think we all just need to be nicer. — Vince Staples

You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across. — Vince Staples

Whenever you have people in power, they try to control people. It's not necessarily a bad thing to control people - you can control people for good, you can control people for bad, but you're gonna try and control people. — Vince Staples

My brothers used to beat me up, but I used to fight my sisters 'cuz I couldn't hit them back, so I had to find specific severe ways to punish them. — Vince Staples

Hopefully New Zealand let me stay, and they don't kick me out and ban me. And I hope I don't get killed by a kangaroo, 'cuz I heard that happens out there. — Vince Staples

People just tell me I'm supposed to be sensitive, and I'm not. But I think I'm very emotional. I'm very caring. — Vince Staples

At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in their own mind. And you couldn't trust anyone. No one was good. — Vince Staples

Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be. — Vince Staples

I hate when I lose my voice and then people try and talk to me and I seem like I'm being rude and then I hurt their feelings. That sucks. — Vince Staples

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it. — Vince Staples

When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big. — Vince Staples

Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about selling drugs, about using drugs - it's bad for kids. — Vince Staples

We still wading in the water ...
Cocaine, blunts, marinating in the water.
Lean and took a puff, and then she gave it to my father,
Used to take the bullets out so I could play with the revolver.
Satan serenading ever since I was a toddler,
Tell 'em talk is cheap ... niggas living for the dollar. — Vince Staples

I love Louisiana fried fish, but it's all Martin Luther King, I can't go over there. — Vince Staples