Top 55 Theophilus London Quotes

After Andy Warhol died, it left a dark cloud over N.Y.C. nightlife.

I like to keep a uniform – wear a blazer, try to keep the same colour pants; very tailored, very fitted but still edgy.

I keep a creative group around me.

I feel I have so much more to deliver than music.

It’s not only about the rap lyric. Today, people are buying you as a person.

The most time I spent home in 2009 was about a month.

Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes.

I like to go to the airport looking stylish – you never know who you’ll run into. Sometimes I have fans at the airports. I never want to be bummy looking.

I want to produce the best popular music I can.

My mind moves very fast. I go through a lot of moods and emotions.

Shout-out to my dad – he influenced my style when I was 17.

To wake up in the morning and just know what I’m going to wear, it helps me get out of the house faster.

I’m not a beach person.

I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road.

When I say ‘rare,’ it’s my own term. It’s like you’re doing something with a photo that is dominant that no one has ever seen before. #Rare means that it can only be seen here. It’s just a rare moment that I’m sharing with the world.

I went to school for marketing for one year before I dropped out of college to make music.

Gold looks good on my skin, and gold looks good on black people, I think.

The Internet is a very powerful tool; unfortunately it’s starting to get a little saturated.

In high school, I always dressed to impress the girls.

As snap-backs became more popular, I started to search and expand my hat game.

Some people have style without even knowing it!

I’m listening to early Cash Money, I’m listening to Juvenile, I’m listening to Waka Flocka, I’m listening to Lil B, I’m listening to Brandy, Kanye – that’s my home playlist.

I’ve got to get my real skills up; like, I got to get my skills up, ’cause in case of a crazy catastrophe, I might have to learn how to swim.

I might want to open a hotel and design all the rooms. Or maybe a museum that lets me curate all the events.

We’re a fast-moving, needy species.

I love an art-school girl. I mean… don’t we all?

My favorite brand I have ever artistically collaborated, entertained, and supported over the years is the huge house that Coco Chanel built: Chanel.

I love N.Y.C.! I can’t think of any individual that hates New York.

I have a personal barber, Mister C. He lives in Brooklyn, but he travels with me. He used to cut Lady Gaga’s hair, but he fired her to work for me.

Growing up as a city kid is a joyous time!

I own over ninety-five different hats and, over the years, have lost or given away 120 hats. You gain to lose… you lose to gain.

While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about.

A lot of young kids like myself use Instagram because it has swag – it’s more personal, and your friends generate it.

Just because 50,000 people on the Internet know me, I’m not patting myself on the back at the end of the night.

Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg – there’s always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta look better than him.

On my early trips to London and Paris, in 2009, I started to shift to more wide-brimmed felt hats similar to Borsalinos and Stetsons.

I like to wear a lot of one-tone color outfits – same color trousers, same color shirt.

I admire traveling; I appreciate it a lot.

Hip-hop is like underground. I don’t know if hip-hop exists anymore. I don’t know if it does.

I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you.

I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color.

I collect different game hats, like Syracuse Women’s Volleyball; I have a Navy Basketball hat. They’re all vintage but in new condition.

I hate writing texts to girlfriends because you can’t really see emotions in texts. You can get confused on what she says.

I take references from the past and flip them.

Believe in yourself and believe in magic.

A lot of my favorite artists are fashion icons.

Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014.

Dressing up, for me, is looking like an idiot.

Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.

I am more into guys’ fashion, but I’m inspired by women’s fashion in a weird way.

I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes.

I wore my same look for six years. My hat and glasses – people recognize me now.

I like connecting with people through technology.

When I was younger, I wasn’t thinking about fit. Clothes are measured just for me now. I know that’s not what the average person does, but I’ve gotten smart about what fits my body the right way and what makes me feel comfortable.

I find it soothing, the thought of a movie theater.