Top 80 G-Eazy Quotes

I don’t go in the studio to make music that won’t matter. I go in every night to try to make a point and make the best music that I can make.

I got my start in small dive bars in New Orleans.

When you use a sample in a big way, when you loop something in the way I did with ‘Runaround Sue,’ it’s like you have your chords and your melody and the quality of the song right there before you add your own production. It’s like the song is already made, in a sense.

As we’ve added players to the team, like a videographer, a drummer, or a sound guy, we’re trying to keep a bus full of A players and keep a culture where everybody is comfortable enough to push each other in their areas to be great.

I thought everybody unanimously hated this man. I don’t know anyone who was like, ‘Go Trump.’ I was surprised.

I hate picking out clothes.

I’m the type of person that rises to the occasion, and when work is in front of me, I do work.

It’s one thing to turn up and jump around stage and give people a good time – that’s obviously a big part of this – but I’ll always get deeper than that as an artist.

It’s just crazy to look back at what I was wearing in high school.

I like to have a lot of girls over and play loud music.

My mom was a single parent.

I’m just making music, and I’m paying my bills.

Albums serve as paragraphs in an artist’s autobiography.

I stick with a ’60s vintage aesthetic of letterman’s jackets, plain T-shirts, and good jeans.

Being in a position to bring people together like we do is a beautiful thing.

What’s weird is the Hot Boys and the whole New Orleans Cash Money thing had a really big impact on the Bay when that was popping off. I don’t all the way understand it. I mean, I know that they were big everywhere and had a lot of commercial success in the mid to late ’90s, but they were really, really felt in the Bay Area.

My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.

Music isn’t selling like it used to, but the one thing you can’t steal or download is a live show experience or a T-shirt.

I played shows in front of like 25, 50 people, and it’s a lot harder to do your thing in front of a crowd that’s small.

I would never consider myself a role model in the wide sense of the word.

I just have more Yves Saint Laurent in my closet, but it is pretty much the same – I just wear black almost 365 days of the year. I am married to it.

In my opinion, creative control means a lot, I feel like I’m really in touch with who my fans are and what they like about my music, and I’m able to communicate directly with them.

For whatever reason, it’s easier to perform in front of a massive crowd than in front of a small one, but again, that’s how we came up.

Growing up, I heard as much E-40 and Mac Dre on the radio as I did 50 Cent. It’s in our culture to support our own.

Touring is a tough plane to get off the ground, and it takes a lot of hard work and a lot of investments.

I think my music is so personal that it lets people in. And they identify with me more because of that, you know, so it’s like my story; it’s who I am as a person.

My music is very reminiscent of the sound I grew up on and the place where that happened. It’s a combination of everything I’m inspired by.

I wanna put numbers on the board. And the thing that everybody doesn’t get is that it just doesn’t happen. It doesn’t just fall out of the air and land on your lap; the only way to get it is to get it and put the work in.

We listen to oldies when we go on tour. Beach Boys radio was really clutch; that was definitely our favorite Pandora station.

When you’re from the Bay Area, there’s this chip on your shoulder that you inherently come up with, because us, as a region, we’ve been overlooked in the grand scheme of the history of the genre and the culture.

When I sample something, it’s just me drawing from what I’m actually into. It’s whatever sounds like a good track.

Some people will like it. Some people will hate it. Some people are indifferent. And you have to live with that as an artist. You wanna be appreciated, you wanna be liked, but you know, it’s just not realistic for everyone.

Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.

I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I’ve been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.

I’m not inherently the most politically or, like, socially conscious rapper, you know? You’re not just going to wake up tomorrow and be Common.

I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.

I fell in love with hip-hop at an early age as a culture, as a sound, both from the perspective of a fan and a creative outlet.

I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.

I think the most important thing is to be yourself and be genuine and don’t try to tell anybody else’s story but your own. And if it comes from a genuine place, I think people can tell, and if it doesn’t, I think people can tell, and I think that eventually it shows.

A halfway decent haircut will go a long way!

I’m aware that there are a million other people who want what I’m lucky enough to have right now.

My mom would always play me a lot of late-’50s, late-’60s rock.

I’ve gone on in front of a crowd of 10 people and 7,000 people.

When you’re making an album, it’s, like, exciting every night you make something new, but you’re the only one who gets to hear it.

When I was 12 or 13, the hyphy movement was beginning to bubble. And you had local acts such as the Federation or E-40, Mac Dre, and Too Short that the local radio station would play all the time. You’d hear E-40 as much as you’d hear Jay Z.

Sometimes you wake up the next morning after making a lot of bad decisions and have this nonchalant reaction like, ‘These Things Happen’ – what can I say?

I wanted to make an album that plays from the top to bottom and feels together and complete. That’s just something that felt important.

I’ve definitely grown and evolved as a person, as an artist, you know. Just in terms of my style, my taste, my influences, everything… That’s a part of being an artist I think.

I’m just doing the only thing I know how to do. There was never a plan B.

Rapping was something I always wanted to do, so after school, my friends and I would catch the bus to my house and just sit there writing songs, every day.

I think it’s natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I’m in the studio and I write something, I think it’s the greatest thing in the world; it’s like my baby. I just made something out of thin air that exists now in a tangible form. It’s the biggest thrill in my life.

You have an entire generation of kids who grew up with the idea that music is something that you can download for free.

Anything back in New Orleans is definitely nostalgic. I really played my first shows of my life and learned to perform here. I learned how to work a stage and how to connect with a crowd. It all started here.

I’m really attracted to girls who are passionate about music because that’s what I’m obsessed with.

I’m on Tumblr all the time.

You don’t need mainstream media outlets, the big TV looks, or the magazine covers.

I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.

I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.

Music is only special when it’s coming from a genuine place – it’s just energy trapped in a bottle.

I actually went to high school with Lil Uno.

When you’re around somebody like E-40, all you can do is watch and learn, and soak up game.

Touring is starting to feel more like home than home does.

That’s the nature of this business. Something that took ten years to make can crumble in an instant. It could be snatched away from you at any moment.

Chance The Rapper makes some of the greatest music out, and he build his brand up organically, and the fans have reacted to it.

I feel like if you’re stuck doing the same thing your whole career you’ve got to be doing something wrong. Unless you’re getting great results from it or you’re just comfortable in that spot.

I think every artist’s next work will reflect a new chapter in their autobiography. Each album tells a story about where they were at during a particular period and how they have evolved.

You’d die very sad if you tried to make everyone in the world happy, you know what I mean? You can’t; no one can.

I’ve always dreamt big and the dream is to keep making music.

New money is something fun to celebrate if you never had it.

I used to go and cop stacks of blanks CDs and sit there and burn copies of my mixtapes and print up my own mixtape covers and post up in downtown Oakland and Telegraph in Berkeley and literally was selling my mixtapes for five bucks, hand-to-hand.

I just hear a beat and start mumbling words. I just hear sounds and rhythms, and it just kind of comes intuitively. Formatting a song, figuring out a flow, how I respond to the beat.