100 Quotes by Too Short

Hip-Hop is a voice.

I definitely don't wanna be in a fight with Nancy Grace. She look like she might can throw them thangs.

I could not have been a rapper in 1985 and thought, 'I want to be a millionaire.' That was not a realistic dream.

I had eight years of a career before I even saw any fame outside of the Bay. I was famous in the Bay for eight years before that.

That song, 'Couldn't Be A Better Player,' was a major turning point in my life.

The biggest lesson to me is that I got the music from somewhere else - the notes, the music my parents listened to, and the stuff I listened to at every age. All of that inspired the music that I made.

I'll go in the studio and hear a track that I don't like, and they're trying to pay me to rap over it. But I'll tell them I just can't do it. And when they ask why, I say, 'Because then somebody's gonna hear it... damn, find another track.'

When I work with Lil Jon, as soon as I come in the studio, he already knows what we're gonna do. He's one of those producers where when you know you've got a session booked with them, you're job is easier because they're probably already going to have an idea or a hook.

If you listen to Too Short over the years, that's me - I'm not hitting every key or every drum or singing every track - but that's me telling everybody what to do. I like to work with creative people. But when it all comes back, and we're mixing down Too Short songs, I'm right there.