Drake Quotes

My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah

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I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We're in a very self-destructive state where we're addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans

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You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don't know if I want to be that guy

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When you're on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn't there at the end of the night, you feel empty

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I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day

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You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative

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My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool

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I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed

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To go indie is a thing. But to put an album in the stores, you need a distribution label

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I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can't do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can't get, because... you know... I don't have the tattoos; I have a different image

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I just have a thing in my brain that when I'm about to do something that's genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I'll be like, 'Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.'

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I respect Chris Brown. I'd like to call myself a friend - I don't know if I'm allowed to do that

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I push myself in a lot of aspects when I write a song. I write a piece and where most people would stop and say, 'Oh, that's the hook right there,' I'll move that to the first four bars of the verse and do a new hook

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There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing

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Trying to meet new women, it's always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that's single and trying to rebuild that connection

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Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along

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