Quote

I jack, I rob, I sin. Aw man, I'm Jackie Robinson 'Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen

Jay-Z

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jay-Z
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 4
Actor
Businessperson
Composer
Drug Trafficker
Entrepreneur
Fashion Designer
Film Director
Film Producer
Investor
Music Executive
Brooklyn
New York
Shawn Corey Carter
Shawn Carter
Jigga
Jigga Man
JayZ
Jay Z
Hova
Hov
Jay
Jayhova
J-Hova
Shawn
Young Hov
00240089589 IPI
00240089393 IPI
Pens
Base
Sin
Running
Cept
Men
Robinson
Dodge
Jackie
Jack

More quotes by Jay-Z

Image
When people say stuff like, Oh, that's soft rock. I don't listen to that, I find that elitist. It's music-racist.
Jay-Z
Image
The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.
Jay-Z
Image
When I listen to great music, the first thing I wonder is what people were saying when this came out of the speakers in the studio. I want to know what happened when they played it and said, This is the one!
Jay-Z
Image
I think the consumption of music is at an all-time high. But I think the ways that record companies are trying to monetize it is just all over the place. At the end of the day, music is in the clouds. Before, you could hold it, look at it, turn it around. Now, it's just in the air.
Jay-Z
Image
It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean? Do you understand that's an insult?
Jay-Z
Image
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
Jay-Z
Image
We change people through conversation, not through censorship.
Jay-Z
Image
Everybody can tell you how to do it but they never done it
Jay-Z
Image
The reason I've been groundedand able to make albums, is because I've allowed my friends to come with me and voice an opinion. That's who keeps you grounded, the people who have known you longest.
Jay-Z
Image
So many people that I've seen can't get clean water. It's a crime.
Jay-Z
Image
Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.
Jay-Z
Image
For me, being with Obama or having dinner with Bill Clinton... It's crazy. It's mind-blowing, because where I come from is just another world. We were just ignored by politicians, by America in general.
Jay-Z
Image
The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.
Jay-Z
Image
Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.
Jay-Z
Image
Electing a black man named Barack Obama President in the same country that elected George W. Bush - twice! - is as far-fetched as a hustler from Marcy performing at that President's inauguration. But it happened.
Jay-Z
Image
Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.
Jay-Z
Image
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.
Jay-Z
Image
If I don't show the world growth, how are we going to grow?
Jay-Z
Image
I had success. I had a number one record. I had a number one album. I have to make this kind of record again or else I'm going to lose it all. That's how you end up making the same song over and over.
Jay-Z
Image
People really feel like music is free, but will pay $6 for water. You can drink water free out of the tap and it's good water. But they're okay paying for it. It's just the mindset right now.
Jay-Z