Best 19 quotes of Doseone on MyQuotes

A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.

Being on stage, it's like, "Ooo-kay, now I remember why all this is going wrong or right!" It's very much my element.

I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.

I can deal with all the pangs of having to find money in 20 different places because you don't really reap the whirlwind with this cutting-edge music.

I change my direction, I can't even help it. It's sort of like the fortune and misfortune of being a rapper.

I know what love is because I lost it at an early age.

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me.

I'm at best on stage. It's one of the only places where I actually can feel like a million bucks.

I MAY NOT BE MUCH ELSE IN THIS WORLD BUT I GUARANTEE YOU I AM GETTING INTO RAPPER HEAVEN.

I'm not the kind of artist that wants to get a sound, refine it, and do it 'til I'm 50 so that it's the purest amber of my one way.

I've always been aggressive and an underdog, and my dad was worried that I would always be that: constantly seeking inspiration from negativity.

I've been writing a lot about just the aspects of luck and being picked, and how of course it's always how one perceives themselves in the world, as a bit of a scapegoat or a bit of a hero. Everyone generally has about a 60/40 split that volleys, between those two.

Recording is a lengthy process, but onstage it's completely different; tape is not running - life is running, and cannot be rewound.

That was how I got into music and art was being a battle kid from Jersey, so I didn't have these wonderful ways of learning commitment, dedication, practicing skill.

The reason I can do what I do on stage is because I couldn't fake it.

What I remove from my writing is linear context. It's not really important to me, because it doesn't give me chills to see, "you flip the latch and the lock opens and then you can open the top of the chest and inside the chest is this." That doesn't give me chills, to think in that vein. So I've always kind of avoided it.

Whether it's just the career path of doing independent music, being an artist, however you want to pigeon-hole it, it creates a certain type of character.

With freestyling it's not about "Say something funny!" That has nothing to do with it. It's about becoming quicker on your feet and knowing that your entire day can go into your rap if you're on it.

You can always find the sample that covers what you're hearing, but barely...it allows me to really concentrate on words.