Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jay-Z
Age: 55
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
Good
Drink
Like
Free
People
Water
Music
Right
Feel
Paying
Feels
Okay
Really
Pay

More quotes by Jay-Z

Image
Stop screamin', you know the demon said it's best to die, And even if Jehovah witness, bet he'll never testify, D'Evils.
Jay-Z
Image
When you listen to an album, it shouldn't feel like, That's the girl song, That's the club song. I shouldn't know what you're thinking while you're making the song. I don't want to know what the artist is thinking.
Jay-Z
Image
You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.
Jay-Z
Image
By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.
Jay-Z
Image
Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth. Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.
Jay-Z
Image
In trouble waters I had to learn how to float
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
[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.
Jay-Z
Image
I think Lil Wayne is extremely talented. I think he's one of the most talented ones out there.
Jay-Z
Image
I look in the mirror, my only opponent
Jay-Z
Image
Gotta keep it peace like a buddhist Nobody gonna Wesley snipe me It's less than likely, Move back, Let I breathe Jedi knight, The more space I get the better I write, (Oh) Never I write, but, if, ever I write, I need the space to say whatever I like.
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
For me, the challenge is just making great albums, because talent - and writing in general - is not tangible. There's no expiration date on it. At the same time, you might wake up tomorrow and be unable to write music.
Jay-Z
Image
Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.
Jay-Z
Image
Don't ever go with the flow. Be the flow.
Jay-Z
Image
I got this black chick, she don't know how to act Always talkin' out her neck, makin' her fingers snap She like, Listen Jigga Man, I don't care if you rap You better - R-E-S-P-E-C-T me
Jay-Z
Image
I believe you can speak things into existence.
Jay-Z
Image
I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.
Jay-Z
Image
They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.
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