Grae Quotes & Sayings

I think artists are entitled to their songs. I'm very vocal and I understand that not everybody's gonna like me; it's not for everyone. — Jean Grae

I think everybody has a responsibility to themselves. If at the end of the day, you can rest and feel OK with yourself, that's fine. — Jean Grae

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians. — Orson Welles

I always wanted to be a part of a New York-based label, so I've worked really hard to try and network with people that I felt would put me in the right place. — Bridget Kelly

I knew I was always going to be around music. And I actually thought I would be dancing, not a vocal major. — Jean Grae

We are left at the brink of our future each day and the only real choice we have is not to jump but instead make our path through the briar. — Thomm Quackenbush

Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment; but they are a present pleasure. — Arthur Helps

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

After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it and watch it grow. — Sy Safransky

Ernest Hemingway talked about how writing is opening up a vein and bleeding onto the page. You prepared to do that? — Craig Lancaster

Personally, I don't do certain things. I read articles and they'll pit me against Lil' Kim like I'm going to smash them down. I never said any of that; I never said I didn't like Kim or Foxy [Brown]. — Jean Grae

She noted that the more gruesome or heinous the crime, the more interested the class of over 105 students would become. — Grae Lily

This, right here with you is the closest that I'll ever come to heaven That's all right by me, because you are my heaven, Grae. — Christine Zolendz

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves. — Samuel Richardson

For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many — Louis L'Amour

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding. — Bodhidharma

There are some places where you want to get money, but it's not really about the money. — Jean Grae

Albert Einstein said that the only way to win at roulette is to steal from the table while the croupier isn't looking. — Jonathan L. Howard

If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed. — Talib Kweli

I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country! — Benjamin Franklin

You really get your sense of women, to begin with, from your mom. — Albert Hammond Jr.

Death is just infinity closing in. — Jorge Luis Borges

He doesn't see his path clearly, but also doesn't consider this absolutely necessary; he strikes out in some direction or other, and one thing leads to the next. All paths lead to lives of some sort, and that's all he requires, for every life promises a great deal and is replete with possibilities enchantingly fulfilled. — Robert Walser

Your Monday is not going to be like Saturday; the emotions are going to be different. — Jean Grae

We might say that the dream tranforms the dreamer; that it possesses the ability to 'initiate', to bestow new meaning, to motivate new beginnings (Latin: initium - beginning), to permit our entrance (literally 'en-trance'; Latin: inire init - to go in) to new orders of relation between ourselves and the 'other'. — Andrew D. Chumbley