387 Quotes by Jay-Z

You can't turn a bad girl good, but once a good girls' gone bad, she's gone forever.

Ain't nothin' wrong with the aim, just gotta change the target.

I'm gonna fight, and I'm gonna make something out of nothing. That's pretty much the American dream. So, for me, the realization that I could speak to people like that came first on a small scale. Then it just started happening. I started having this vibration.

You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.

You can pay for school, but you can't buy class

People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist.

For me, the challenge is just making great albums, because talent - and writing in general - is not tangible. There's no expiration date on it. At the same time, you might wake up tomorrow and be unable to write music.

Everybody can tell you how to do it but they never done it

I seen the worst of the worst. I deserve every blessing I receive I'm from the dirt.