Jay-Z

If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow.

Jay-Z

If you want the old me, go buy my old albums.

Jay-Z

In trouble waters I had to learn how to float.

Jay-Z

It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike.

Jay-Z

Music is everywhere – you consume it every day, everywhere you go. The content creator should be compensated. It’s only fair.

Jay-Z

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama’s running so we all can fly.

Jay-Z

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I’m a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?

Jay-Z

The burden of poverty isn’t just that you don’t always have the things you need, it’s the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you’d do anything to lift that burden.

Jay-Z

The genius thing that we did was, we didn’t give up.

Jay-Z

We were living in a tough situation, but my mother managed; she juggled. Sometimes we’d pay the light bill, sometimes we paid the phone, sometimes the gas went off.

Jay-Z