Phife Dawg Lyric Quotes

#1. A Tribe Called Quest was one of those things where it was supposed to be about growth. When I say 'growth,' I don't just mean with our sound or our product, but Tribe was supposed to grow as individuals. #Quote by Phife Dawg

#2. Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true.
And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you. #Quote by Phife Dawg

#3. When I hear the word 'documentary,' I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent as much as you can, unless your group has a meeting beforehand and says, 'Yo - don't say this, 'cause boom, boom, boom.' Other than that, it's a documentary so let's document, you know what I mean? #Quote by Phife Dawg

#4. I'm a rapper but I'm a human being. #Quote by Phife Dawg

#5. I'm doing a fun EP. It's called 'Songs in the Key of Phife: Eight Is Enough.' It's radio-friendly, but then a lot of it just has that raw hip-hop. Some of it will be vintage Tribe, but for the most part I'm just letting my voice be heard. #Quote by Phife Dawg

#6. When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic? #Quote by Phife Dawg

#7. I emcee how I feel for the moment. I'll always be influenced by Tribe, but my EP and LP have a lot of different flavors! I'll keep it vintage Tribe if Tribe decides to do another LP ... which, in my heart, I'd love to do for the fans. #Quote by Phife Dawg

#8. Question: Why is that MC's be wack
And major labels wanna sign that crap?
A-yo ... funk that! #Quote by Phife Dawg

#9. Cuz if I don't say I'm the best, tell me who the hell will? #Quote by Phife Dawg

#10. Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop,
I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop,
Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top,
Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closin the shop #Quote by Phife Dawg

#11. I'm all about the fans. #Quote by Phife Dawg

#12. Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney. #Quote by Phife Dawg

#13. Used to have a crush on Dawn from En Vogue.
It's not like honey dip would wanna get with me,
But just in case I own more condoms than TLC. #Quote by Phife Dawg

#14. 'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun. #Quote by Erich Bergen

#15. I may appear to be free but I'm just a prisoner of your love. #Quote by Macy Gray

#16. When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back. #Quote by James Fenton

#17. Lyric helps invoke the core person. And, without lyric, it is difficult to touch the core. Lyrical music is the music of India. #Quote by Dayananda Saraswati

#18. Trouble, Troublemaker yeah that's your middle name

Ooh #Quote by Olly Murs

#19. I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs that are quite personal, I always feel it's a bit accusing if I stare in someone's face when I singing quite a personal lyric. #Quote by Laura Mvula

#20. Poetry is like a portrait of a moment or person, and the poem is almost like looking at a photograph; it slaps you in the face and kisses you at the same time. Nothing else does that, with that brevity. Songs try to do it, but that's three minutes. A poem, you read it and it kind of changes your life and you don't know how it happened and you can never forget it. It's like the best song lyric, the best line from a film-everything in the world that's short and great put together. #Quote by Warsan Shire

#21. He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor. #Quote by Deborah Cox

#22. It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roundtill he spontaneously combusts into verse. He has nothing that goes on, no passion, only a few intense moods, separate like odd stars, and when each has burned away, he must die. #Quote by D.H. Lawrence

#23. I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable about the fact that we're going to die and that we can't stand it and I think you find that out in childhood and you don't really - at least I found it out in childhood and I found it hard to get over. #Quote by Edward Hirsch

#24. The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul. #Quote by Jon Landau

#25. I was inspired by people like Joni Mitchell and Carole King and Stevie and "Storytellers." People that could really change the world with their lyric, no matter who sung the song, they had still been the source of that message. So that's what I really aim for. #Quote by Emeli Sande

#26. What makes a great song - you don't put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something. #Quote by Diane Warren

#27. Talk show host Charlie Rose asked folk rocker Neil Young about following his own muse. "So if you get an idea at, say, a dinner party, if you hear a tune or a lyric, do you excuse yourself from the party?" Charlie inquired. "Of course. You never know when she'll [the muse] come again. I'm responsible to her." Sometimes, Neil would hide out in a bathroom to scratch out a song that was coming to him and return to his dinner guests after he felt he'd captured it. When you feel an idea comin' on, excuse yourself. Pull over to the side of the road. Get lost in the creative flow. Be late. Barge in. #Quote by Danielle LaPorte

#28. Back from 'Roam if she wants to'!" yelled Renee. She had that condition unique to choreographers and directors, where they can listen to the same line or lyric thousands of times without ever getting it right. #Quote by Mara Wilson

#29. As there is no narrative, his poetry has been described as lyrical. As A. J. Smith observes, 'The most directly influential body of lyric poetry in European literature Il Canzoniere of Petrarch consists of some three hundred and eighty sonnets, madrigals and canzoni, sensitively registering every nuance of the poet's forty-seven-year devotion to one Laura. #Quote by Brenda Liddy

#30. In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself. #Quote by Seamus Heaney

#31. JAMIE'S SONG 'She':

There's something about her eyes.
I don't know what I see.
She wears a cloak of lies.
I don't know what I mean.
She hides behind those eyes.
Will she let me in?

I could feel the barrier between,
Her and the world and sea.

She is not what she may seem..... #Quote by Neha Yazmin

#32. When Blue sang, a lyric became a libation; a song became a sacrament. #Quote by Pearl Cleage

#33. When I'm singing a song on stage, I hate hypocrites. If you don't put yourself in that lyric and emote and be what that lyric says that you are, then you're just going through the motions and you're being hypocritical. I just take that same approach with acting. I just take the dialogue and I emote it and become that. I use the same technic. #Quote by Trace Adkins

#34. My job is to be some sort of music/lyric psychic, to figure out that that's the right song to not fight the lyric. #Quote by Ben Folds

#35. I'll break your face, have your ass mumbling to the jay, you going against me dawg you makin a mistake. I'll split your wig and leave you open like a mickeal jackson jacket with all them zippers. #Quote by Curtis Jackson

#36. One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric. #Quote by John Marshall Harlan II

#37. I feel like fans who like old Southern rock and country, and more lyric-driven songs in general, have come to country radio. I think that's why you see country radio growing and albums selling: People are craving a little more of the singer-songwriter stuff going on in country. #Quote by Charles Kelley

#38. When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect. #Quote by Etgar Keret

#39. We heard about the Smiths later, through friends. What attracted us was how they could get across the meaning of the lyric through the tone of the vocal. A lot of bands just try to be catchy. The Smiths wanted to be more. #Quote by Spencer Smith