Torae Torae Quotes & Sayings

Stories are a way to connect with others and realize we're not alone in our crazy, mixed-up thoughts. I think what you do is important. It keeps introverted people like me from going insane. — Linda Kage

Working with Preme is always a dream come true. It's never like "I'm here and I'm comfortable." It's always like that very first time. It's a lot of jokes being cracked and we have a lot of fun. — Torae

As much as I make my music for me, I make it for the people who rock with me and follow me. They're the inspiration behind it. — Torae

I'm naturally a personable person. I feel like figuring out ways to have my personality shine through outside of just a three minute song helped. I have layers, there are many different sides to Torae. — Torae

When man is finally able to see himself and the world around him with clear cognition, he finds a picture far more pleasant. Visible in unmistakable clarity and devastating detail is man's failure to be what he might be and his misuse of his world. This revelation causes him to leap out in search of a way of life and system of values which will enable him to be more than he has been. He seeks a foundation of self-respect, which will have value system rooted in knowledge and cosmic reality where he expresses himself so that all others, all beings can continue to exist. His values now are of a different order from those at previous levels: They arise not from selfish interest but from the recognition of the magnificence of existence and the desire that it shall continue to be. — Clare W. Graves

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority. — Stanley Milgram

People listen to the beat first. So if that doesn't draw people in especially with the audience I cater to, they're definitely about that production. — Torae

My music is just as much me as it is everybody else. — Torae

I played some shows, but I'm disappointed it didn't do better. I wish all my shows sold out, I wish I had sold more copies, I wish that a song was picked up to be in a TV show - whatever these little benchmarks are. You always want something more. — Eleanor Friedberger

Weak thoughts, weak desires: he felt their force. — Maurice Blanchot

You pluck flower after flower - it is never the flower. The flower itself - its calyx is a horrible gulf, it is the bottomless pit. — D.H. Lawrence

Luftmensch - the impractical individual whose imagination has lifted him beyond the world. — Stephen Eric Bronner

Maybe when water yearned for fire / it invented waves / so one day they might become flames — Ibrahim Nasrallah

Acting is something I've always wanted to get into - you memorize lines when you write your rhymes. — Torae

Mama gave birth to a hell raising heavenly son. See the doctor tried to smack me, but I smacked him back. — Tupac Shakur

Sometimes I listen to a beat and I think its so dope and I don't know what to bring to that. And some beats I listen to and I just love them as instrumentals and I listen to them when I'm riding around. — Torae

If you can stand on stage and perform a record, you should be able to stand on stage and captivate the audience without the rhyme. You should be a master of ceremonies. — Torae

Once you get a couple of records in, you kinda vibe out then you see what a full length is. — Torae

For me, when I do a show is to make sure that I gain some new people. — Torae

That's always good when you can bring out two sets of fans and supporters and then kinda cross them in between. — Torae

I heard when I talk, they all listen,
They hang on every word from the God, they all Christians.
I baptize 'em with lines, this is y'all christenin'
Bless with the gift of my presence, this y'all's Christmas. — Torae

I never want it to be a point where I'm so comfortable that I'm slacking. — Torae

I want people who are going to rock out for the duration. — Torae