424 Quotes by Russell Simmons

I mostly eat healthy. I just do. I’m not a vegan for health reasons – although obviously I’m 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that’s true. But I’m a vegan for compassionate reasons.

The stuff I do, I do every day, and I’ve been doing it for long periods of time. I don’t start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.

Be encouraged. Stay on your hustle. You can’t fail until u quit.

I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what’s on people’s minds and I don’t think it’s any different now.

Hip-hop took some lessons from rock ‘n’ roll, and rock ‘n’ roll took some lessons from hip-hop.

Hip-hop is such a wide statement of culture that everyone is not the same, and it’s impossible to put it into one box.

I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all ‘see’ a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.

In the morning I stand up, scratch a little bit, then I light a candle and I meditate. Every morning. I’ve been meditating for maybe 20 years. I meditate so I can make choices; so I’m not a sheep all the time. So I can see better than what everyone else is doing.

Never change for the mainstream – stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.