63 Quotes by Danny Brown

Certain people in life are just going to take what’s given to them, and certain people in life know they want better and they’re going to go find better. I’ve always been that type of person.

There’s no downside to traveling the world and making money. I’m doing something I love. A lot of people have sucky jobs, but I have a good one, and I’m not trying to lose it any time soon.

I like seeing people that are into my music, it shows me that it doesn’t matter, you can’t judge a person based on how they look, and that’s just how my music is.

I never was a crazy liquor drinker, and I don’t like beer that much – though I keep the brews at home because my homies love beer.

I love Michigan, to be honest. I don’t think I’d live nowhere else. It’s cheap! This is Detroit. A little bit of nothing gets you a lot of something.

To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don’t really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.

I want to be able to do what I want to do. A lot of times, the major labels, they can’t see the vision, they can only see the dollar signs. So, it doesn’t really work out like that.

There was a long time in my life where I made music that I thought my friends would like, or that I thought would get me a record deal, or what I thought I was supposed to make because that’s what I was seeing in mainstream. I didn’t know myself; I didn’t find myself musically or, in real life.

The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn’t want no one telling me how to make my music.