Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.
Macklemore
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Macklemore
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: June 19
Actor
Composer
Dancer
Rapper
Singer
Songwriter
Seattle
Washington
Ben Haggerty
Lived
Art
Never
Life
Wasted
More quotes by Macklemore
I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
Macklemore
Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
Macklemore
I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings
Macklemore
My relationship with God is as strong as the time and energy I put into connecting with God.
Macklemore
I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording.
Macklemore
Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.
Macklemore
I want to be someone who is respected and not just in terms of my music. I want to be respected in terms of the way that I treat people... Music is my creative outlet in terms of expressing what is important to me what has importance, what has a value. And I wanna be respected for that.
Macklemore
No freedom til we're equal...damn right I support it.
Macklemore
I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.
Macklemore
Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.
Macklemore
Drug culture is extremely prevalent and probably most people know somebody whose life has been affected by drugs, if it's not their own or in their own family, they have friends. It's a never-ending process.
Macklemore
The greats weren't great because at birth they could paint The greats were great because they paint a lot
Macklemore
I've never been a religious person. I've been a spiritual person since I was about 15, 16, when I was first introduced to Psilocybin [mushrooms]. That really opened me up to thinking about the universe in a different way, and coming to significant realizations about my connection to something greater than me.
Macklemore
I want to make music that I like not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
Macklemore
Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.
Macklemore
For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be an individual amongst the mass amounts of other artists.
Macklemore
Bullying is a national epidemic.
Macklemore
I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.
Macklemore
I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.
Macklemore
One man's trash that's another man's come up.
Macklemore
