The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
There cannot be heaven without Christ. He is the sum total of bliss; the fountain from which heaven flows, the element of which heaven is composed. Christ is heaven and heaven is Christ.
Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow.”
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. [Fr., Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisement.]
B.G. was just like his lyrics.
The rap game without me would be like woofers without bass.
I'm the greatest game-spitter of all time. I talk about the swell, the block, the 'hood. I'm a street commentator. I narrate how people live. That's E-40.
I'm not tryin' to come off as the best lyricist.
I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a weird way, that's how I first learned the American accent: doing American rap songs.
If we don't put some acting in a dance song, no one would be able to dance on it.
Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?
My approach to writing rhymes went hand in hand with the music. I'd try to make different rhythms with my rhymes on the track by tripping up patterns, using multi-syllable words, different syncopations. I'd try to be like a different instrument.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Don't swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching.
Lil Wayne, that was one of my main influences, music-wise, because of his wordplay and metaphors.
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
Giving and receiving are different expressions of the same flow of energy in the universe.
Life is all about balance and following what the universe provides for you.
The vibe on 'Starboy' comes from that hip-hop culture of braggadocio, from Wu-Tang and 50 Cent, the kind of music I listened to as a kid.
The wise person dines on something more subtle: He eats the understanding that the named was born from the unnamed, that all being flows from non-being, that the describable world emanates from an indescribable source.
Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.
Let the natural flow of the universe, course through your being, and harmonize your soul.
Hip hop has always been braggin' and boasting and 'I'm better at you than this' and 'I'm better at you than that.'
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
