Quote

If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care about yourself because you're like, This is so ridiculous.

Mos Def

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mos Def
Age: 50
Born: 1973
Born: December 11
Actor
Composer
Film Actor
Film Producer
Rapper
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
Television Actor
Brooklyn
New York
Yasiin Bey
Dante Terrell Smith
Dante Beze
Black Dante
Care
Even
Like
Cares
Famous
Ridiculous
Sake
Fame

More quotes by Mos Def

Image
I want to be necessary and do good works. I ain't here to waste nobody's time, because I don't want you to waste mine.
Mos Def
Image
Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato
Mos Def
Image
Don't look down, it's an impossible view Fly like an eagle whatever you do.
Mos Def
Image
Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.
Mos Def
Image
Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.
Mos Def
Image
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.
Mos Def
Image
Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it.
Mos Def
Image
My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.
Mos Def
Image
Crack mothers, crack babies and AIDS patients Youngbloods can't spell, but they could rock you in PlayStation.
Mos Def
Image
Hip-Hop went from selling crack to smoking it
Mos Def
Image
I seen her on the ave, spotted her more than once. Ass so fat that you could see it from the front.
Mos Def
Image
If Islam's sole interest is the welfare of mankind, then Islam is the strongest advocate of human rights anywhere on Earth.
Mos Def
Image
When people say I don't see you enough, well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.
Mos Def
Image
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.
Mos Def
Image
To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.
Mos Def
Image
I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.
Mos Def
Image
I think hip-hop is actually one of the most challenging things that's happened in music in a long time. The people who are in charge of what people see or hear are afraid. What you hear on top 40 or what you see on BET or MTV is not a fair representation of what is really going on...
Mos Def
Image
Live now for the promise of the Infinite
Mos Def
Image
Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.
Mos Def
Image
I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.
Mos Def