Joe Budden Quotes
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Success to me is self-determined, the life I live today, to come from a kid strung out on angel dust, homeless, at some points sleeping in the street. No money, not knowing where the next meal was coming from. No sex, no relationships, people that didn't love me, didn't care about me, to where I am today... that's successful. When I signed my record deal I always wanted to be respected by my peers for my ability and my skill level.
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I believe that life is meaningless without hope, which is really what that line is about. Without hope, what are we living for? I wouldn't wanna see where exactly I'd be in five years. I wouldn't wanna know my exact date of death. I wouldn't want to know my exact cause of death. Certain things I just want to allow to take place rather than just have the knowledge beforehand.
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They say I'm difficult, so to put it simply....tell the world I never cared it was against me
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I would have had a clause in my contract; I would've definitely put some fine print in my contract that said, "If the president leaves, I'm leaving." That'd be the bottom line.
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Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else.
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I don't wanna join the Hair Club For Men or anything.
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Sometimes you gotta stand by your failures to recognize your success
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I'm a firm believer in everything going digital, in a matter of years. I wanted to kind of be one of the pioneers, one of the people that jump on that bandwagon early.
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Like I said, as long as I'm consistent and I try to put my best foot forward, and work as hard as I possibly can, everything else will fall into place - God'll take care of everything.
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I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.
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I get a lot of support from the West Coast. But I think that's beginning to change. I think, as the awareness goes up, and as I continue to be consistent, more people from my area come around, and they're converted into Joe Budden fans.
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I could've never envisioned things goin' this way in a million years. But, I'm a firm believer in my higher power havin' a plan, and he's never wrong, and he's not open to suggestions. I'm sure that everything [has] happened for a reason.
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For Joe Budden fans, and for Joe Budden, I like to focus on the creative side, and havin' a thought and bein' able to execute it in the booth. I think that song best displays me being able to do that.
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You take music out of life and love. I don't want to be on a planet without music.
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I know that I'm kind of a big deal online, but I think that some of that is starting to seep into the streets, and you want to kind of continue to make sure it does that.
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I read every fan forum and every blog, and every message board, and every chat room. I read it all. There's nothing online that I'm not aware of.
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You don't need to be at a major, not at all. Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.
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I'm a firm believer in my higher power havin' a plan, and he's never wrong, and he's not open to suggestions.
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If I'm trading bars with somebody, it certainly is not because I have a release coming. Joe Budden prides himself on the music and not the sales aspect.
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Even at my lowest I was sittin on my high stool.
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If I were to go the major route, again, attention would probably be the first and foremost. You want attention, you want support, you want to be treated properly, and I don't wanna have to go anywhere and teach people how to treat me. As far as money, acclaim and fame, those things are a plus - accolades - they're all great.
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Look, sometimes the truth could hurt you so I blow my cig smoke right at the truth commercial.
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In this day and age, you gotta be a profiler to really know who people are, which most of us are not. So, we need time and life to start happening for people to really show their trust colors.
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Up late talking to the fans on a website, That's the only thing that send ya man off to bed right
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I'm not in a competition with any other artist, anything that's goin' on - I'm strictly competing with myself.
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And I'll never let myself down..How so? I don't expect too much from me.
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Where I'm at physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually usually dictates where my music goes.
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Leave the past in the past, tomorrows not promised and Todays just a gift i guess thats why its the present
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I loved love til' it resented me, and if it's still a stranger then I love who it pretends to be.
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I always call niggas fools for wanting to learn the hard way. When I'm really the fool for tryna teach 'em. When the blinds leading the blind. You can't reach 'em. If niggas ain't as hungry as you then why feed 'em? Niggas ain't tryna be lead then why lead 'em? Having big problems with your dogs, why breed em?
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