387 Quotes by Jay-Z

I dumbed down for my audience to double my dollars.

I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter.

There’s the gift, there’s the spirit, and there’s the work-all three have to come together. If one of those things is off, it can stop you from becoming who you were meant to be.

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there’d be a rap song for you.

I smoked some weed, and that’s how I finished ‘Izzo.’

I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that’s from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

I’m far from being god, but I work god damn hard.

And now we’re lethal, infected with D’Evils.

Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can’t.