Freddie Gibbs Quotes

The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it.

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

When I was nominated for a Grammy, my label dropped me - I have a wariness about trying for a hit.

Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it's not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.

And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry.

I remember being told 'Someone's gonna make a fortune out of this rap thing' and thinking 'no way'.

I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.

I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up.

I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and I go, 'You know what, dude, no matter whether you're in a band just surviving or you're in a bus playing stadiums, one way or another, you're still among the rare breed of people that are actually getting paid to do it.'

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money.

When Rick Ross made 'Hustlin',' Rick Ross also helped those producers become some of the biggest producers in the world.

It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.

Jimmy Iovine signed me personally to a million-dollar contract, and I lost my identity for a long time. That system is so predicated on making a hit, or you're out of here.

I love the story of the guy coming to Nashville and then kind of getting set down and told, 'This is how the town works,' which, I've totally been there. But the coolest thing about 'Out of Style' is it's a song within a song.

When someone is a musician - trying to make a living off being a public figure - it's really easy for people to see me as a face on a screen that doesn't have a personal life.

If I had been thrown out into a radio tour when I was 18, or 17, and given a record deal, I don't think... it would have been a total nightmare.

I think I never had this grandiose dream of being any country music star. I just slowly progressed into that's what I'm doing.

Nobody is going to hand you a music career.

I never thought in my wildest dreams I'd ever be offered a record deal, and to get a Christmas No. 1 would be huge for any performer, let alone an ex-footballer.

I never set out to be a rock star, I set out to be a working musician.

If you think the music business is the be-all and end-all of life, you're in big trouble.