Lupe Fiasco Quotes

As much as I am hip-hop, I'm soul. As much as I am soul, I'm a turntablist. As much as I'm a DJ, I love jazz and rock.

As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.

I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will reflect. It will be home to electronic dance music, pop, hip-hop.

Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me.

I'm not hip-hop. I'm Tyler.

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

My love for the female hip hop movement has always been genuine.

I have a secret love of jazz.

The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.

By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.

People ask me how could I go from country to jazz. It's been a natural convergence for me.

I did ballet, jazz, and all that, but I think hip-hop is really where I learned rhythm and groove, which has helped me in music.

I just appreciate the love that I get and support from hip-hop.

If you're going to write about rap music and hip-hop, and you don't love it, then we don't need your opinion, and we revoke your opinion.

Jay-Z, for a lot of reasons, will always be my favorite. But actually, in terms of what I listen to, it bends towards hip-hop, but I like everything. The only thing I don't really love is country, but everything else I'm a huge fan of.

All Die Antwoord music, on a weird level, is like relationship music.

I didn't like progressive jazz or anything. Rock was something I like to listen to.

I never had a problem moving between jazz and hip-hop.