ASAP Rocky Quotes

I just want to make good music. That's it. That's what I care about.

I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.

If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music can influence anybody. I've heard people say that our music has influenced such and such, and it could be true, and it could not.

I remember when I did 'Live SheckWes, Die SheckWes,' and when I did 'Mo Bamba,' I one-taked those because it came from my heart.

I want to write just as much as Kanye may have for whomever Kanye has written for.

When I made Illmatic, I was trying to make the perfect album. It comes from the days of Wild Style. I was trying to make you experience my life. I wanted you to look at hip-hop differently. I wanted you to feel that hip-hop was changing and becoming something more real.

I know when somebody's heard my music. I can hear it in their music.

Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they'll never be eclipsed.

I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

I think the greatest hip-hop artist of all time is Jay-Z, without a doubt. He just keeps amazing me with his performance, and since '96, that guy has been producing at least one hit every summer and every winter. That's a pretty good resume.

I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

I'm pretty obsessed with Sara Bareilles. She is so talented, and I feel like I would learn so much from her.

What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.

I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too.

I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

If I'm on form and I'm not being bothered too much by mental problems or whatever, I can whip out something good. That's why I've done quite a few overdubs for Tina Turner and things like that, because even before she made this comeback I said yes to her, just because I love Tina Turner.