Nas quotes

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.

Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.

I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.

You can't please everybody. You'd be crazy if you're trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.

Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.

I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.

I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

I don't get jealousy, I don't get how people hate each other - I never did.

My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those - those are growing pains. Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I'm not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.

Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.