Dupri Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page. — Jermaine Dupri

Before I was not in the television cameras every 5 minutes, I wasn't as visible, but this year I plan on being more visible to ensure that Virgin Rap Division does not lose. Although I am a very low key person, I am competitive, and with every ounce of my spirit, I will ensure that this label is taken seriously. — Jermaine Dupri

Perfect should never be a goal. Perfect just happens if you let it. — Wendy Wunder

We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has nothing to do with how far you can come. — Wendy Davis

The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity. — Eric Temple Bell

There was at least some small beauty in what we'd done. — Carol Rifka Brunt

So So Def has been one of the most successful and consistent labels in the game in the last 10 years. — Jermaine Dupri

I'm one of those guys a lot of people watch, imitate, and then make it seem like they were the ones who did it first. — Jermaine Dupri

People are just really overreacting. It's just feel good music. We at Virgin are in no way promoting sex or whatever these media outlets continue to print. — Jermaine Dupri

As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose. It was useless to tell them as the centuries passed that their Christ was but another God of the Wood, dying and rising, as Dionysus or Osiris had done before him, and that the Virgin Mary was in fact the Good Mother again enshrined. Theirs was a new age of belief and conviction, and in it we became devils, detached from what they believed, as old knowledge was forgotten or misunderstood. — Anne Rice

When I came out rapping on my record, a lot of people said, Oh, you just want to be like Puff. — Jermaine Dupri

I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy. — Usher

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice. — Confucius

Portray your product as average and that's all that it will ever be. — Jeremy Gutsche

Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game. — Jermaine Dupri

The thing I'm going through is probably like the same thing that Little Richard and all these other artists go through, that I hear about them, saying, 'Oh damn, you ain't gonna give me nothing till I die,' ... I feel like I'm one of those type of great people that just going to have to wait till it's all over with for people to really sit around and talk about it. — Jermaine Dupri

We're just welcoming people to our city. — Jermaine Dupri

You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience. — Talib Kweli

I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage. — Jermaine Dupri

People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that. — Jermaine Dupri

I'm the least confident person in so many ways. But I believed that if somebody gave me the chance to tell a story, I would tell a story [well enough] that the person who gave me the chance would get their money back. — Joss Whedon

In the Ferrari or Jaguar, switchin' four lanes
Wit' the top down screaming out money ain't a thang — Jermaine Dupri

They keep the song as street as it needs to be. It's got a good catchy hook where it can do what it needs to do on the radio, but they keep the song street where it will keep credibility in the hood. — Jermaine Dupri

If you don't know by now, you're never going to know. — Jermaine Dupri

Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places. — Frederick Douglass

She felt both relaxed and protected with him, at least from outside forces. Nothing, it seemed, could protect her from him, and tonight she wasn't even certain she wanted to be. Claimed, and mated. She was his, but was he hers? And if he was, what in hell did they do about it?
"I don't even know what you want," she said fretfully, beginning to lose herself in rising sensation.
"This," he muttered in a dark, rough tone. "You.
Everything. — Linda Howard

I didn't invest in nothing, i just worked my butt off — Jermaine Dupri

My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown. — Jermaine Dupri

People know me, and want to know me, as a baller more than anything else. — Jermaine Dupri

We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum. — Jermaine Dupri

I loved 'The West Wing'; it's my favourite-ever television show. — Rupert Evans

How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don't work? — Thomas Sowell

When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before. — Leslie Fiedler

I go to clubs and if I notice the DJs are playing the records faster, then I'll push the beats a little on the next record I make. A lot of people don't know how to watch out for things like that. — Jermaine Dupri

All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm. — Jermaine Dupri