Robert Glasper Quotes

Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.

I don't know how to sell out. If I tried to sell out I don't think I could.

People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.

I think that I have sold out sometimes.

My biggest thing is that I never want to sell out. Or be a sellout.

I would never be a sellout, but you can never be a sellout to kids. Kids is kids!

This is my definition of selling out: When you change what you do or do what you do as a reaction to someone else's expectations or lack of expectations.

Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.

I never wanted to lose who I am, my character or my integrity for the sake of Hollywood.

I really don't believe in the word 'selling out.'

When I was working for WWE I felt like I was trying to make someone else's vision happen instead of my own. And I think that's where I became less true to myself and I think it showed in my work.

No one can establish what selling out is.

Try to find your individuality, your integrity, and make the effort of not compromising. Because the more you compromise, the less you are an individual. You are only a cog in the wheel, just a part in the vast mechanism, just a small part of the mob - not an individual in your own beauty, in your own right. I am absolutely against compromise. Death is far more beautiful than a life of compromise.

Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.

Perhaps its inevitable, perhaps one has to choose between being nothing at all and impersonating what one is.

The media wants me to change, but it would be very dishonest to supporters to do so.

I will not change just to court popularity.

I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.

Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.

You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can't.

But we all must be true to our own nature. Acting as anyone other than yourself merely brings you pain and makes you appear ashamed of who and what you are. Others will feed off that shame, and soon it will be all that you are.