Quote

I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.

Nas

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nas
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: September 14
Actor
Businessperson
Dressmaker
Entrepreneur
Musician
Political Activist
Rapper
Record Producer
Recording Artist
Restaurateur
Singer
Brooklyn
New York
Nasir Jones
Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones
Nasty Nas
Nas Escobar
American
Reflect
Helping
Africa
Music
Russia
Different
China
Never
Crazy
Life
Sides
World
Growing
Talking
Switzerland

More quotes by Nas

Image
Always observe, watch, and talk to older people.
Nas
Image
The further I get, the further I want to go
Nas
Image
Props is a true thug's wife.
Nas
Image
Everything will eventually come to an end, So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it? The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better, Cause nothin' lasts forever.
Nas
Image
I've met a lot of people and happened to inspire a lot of people who I'm in conversation with about business. It's just how things are going for me and it's great, but music is always going to be number one for me.
Nas
Image
And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes.
Nas
Image
The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me.
Nas
Image
I've gone through too much, from beefs to divorce to my mom passing which I always expressed in my music, so there's not album that sticks out as more important than the other to me.
Nas
Image
I'm a reader, so when I go to bookstores I need (stuff) that's going to help me. There a big emptiness there and I want to help fill that through song.
Nas
Image
My first record - it was 1991. I was 16 years old. My first album came out when I was 20. So, I've been here that long and I still have the passion to do it.
Nas
Image
Just do as much as you can.
Nas
Image
I got the opportunity to meet people all over the world. Brilliant women, tall women, short women, slim women, thick women, you name it. But, I don't meet them. I have the opportunities to and it's a little bit - I'm a little shy, so I don't meet them and I don't know who's right for me.
Nas
Image
The Internet made the world smaller, so it's easier for people to hear your music. You don't necessarily need a radio record.
Nas
Image
Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
Nas
Image
I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.
Nas
Image
I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind
Nas
Image
There's really nothing better than music to bring people together and to have amazing music being not just created inside walls but then decimating and activating is going to be special.
Nas
Image
I'm a storyteller and the Bible is a bunch of stories about life and things that took place here on planet earth. It's a great example to use and a great reason to be happy about being a storyteller because the lessons of the land are always in stories.
Nas
Image
Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.
Nas
Image
My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.
Nas