Quotes about hip

A collection of quotes on the topic of hip, hop, hops, likeness.

Quotes about hip

The Notorious B.I.G. photo
George Orwell photo
Kent Hovind photo
Kanye West photo
Kanye West photo

“I'd give all the Grammy plaques just to have my Granny back/You know she had that bad hip like a fanny pack.”

Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter

Forever
Lyrics, More Than a Game (2009)

W. H. Auden photo
Kanye West photo

“The music and the clothing are just as important. That's what makes you hip hop. You show people that you're hip hop by what you wear.”

Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter

2013 Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S78tT_YxF_c

Frank Zappa photo

“Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see which has people in it who believe a variety of different things.”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer

Zen Masters : The Wisdom of Frank Zappa (2003)
Context: Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see which has people in it who believe a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.

“In a world where social media is part of everyone’s life and your phone is glued to your hip like a dog chasing its own tail, we need to start celebrating our own bodies and the bodies of those around us more.”

Matkai Burmaster (1992) Film Director and Co-Founder of the Fearless streaming service

Source: Matkai.com - https://www.matkai.com/this-pride-lets-start-celebrating-the-bodies-that-go-uncelebrated/

Rick Riordan photo
Scott Adams photo

“Big bad merc, down with a basic hip toss. In your place I'd be blushing.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

David Ebershoff photo
Markus Zusak photo
Douglas Adams photo
Bret Easton Ellis photo
Nikki Giovanni photo
Charles Bukowski photo

“God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns

Laurie Halse Anderson photo
P.G. Wodehouse photo
Bernhard Schlink photo
David Foster Wallace photo
Jennifer Donnelly photo
Gabriel García Márquez photo
Pauline Kael photo
Edmund White photo
Ta-Nehisi Coates photo

“I call [my music] ho-wop. It's the flavor of hip-hop, the flavor of doo-wop, and hoes.”

Eamon (singer) (1984) American singer

Quotes from interviews

R. H. Tawney photo

“An erring colleague is not an Amalkite to be smitten hip and thigh.”

R. H. Tawney (1880–1962) English philosopher

"The Rise of the Gentry: A Postscript," The Economic History Review, Vol. 7, No. 1 (1954)

Lupe Fiasco photo
Gregory Benford photo

““You know, my dear, you’re wrong that suffering ennobles people.” She’d stopped to massage her hip, wincing. “It simply makes one cross.””

Gregory Benford (1941) Science fiction author and astrophysicist

Nooncoming, p. 100 (Originally published in Universe 8, edited by Terry Carr), 1978
In Alien Flesh (1986)

Heidi Klum photo

“Sexy for me is a curvy woman — doesn't have to be skinny, which I hate anyway. I'm glad [the fashion industry] is changing slowly a little bit now to get more into the boobs and hips again.”

Heidi Klum (1973) German model, television host, businesswoman, fashion designer, television producer, and actress

In an interview for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Special 1998.

Kunti photo
Henry Moore photo

“The idea for [his sculpture] 'The Warrior' came to me at the end of 1952 or very early in 1953. It was evolved from a pebble I found on the seashore in the summer of 1952, and which reminded me of the stump of a leg, amputated at the hip. Just as Leonardo says somewhere in his notebooks that a painter can find a battle scene in the lichen marks on a wall, so this gave me the start of The Warrior idea. First I added the body, leg and one arm and it became a wounded warrior, but at first the figure was reclining. A day or two later I added a shield and altered its position and arrangement into a seated figure and so it changed from an inactive pose into a figure which, though wounded, is still defiant... The head has a blunted and bull-like power but also a sort of dumb animal acceptance and forbearance of pain... The figure may be emotionally connected (as one critic has suggested) with one’s feelings and thoughts about England during the crucial and early part of the last war. The position of the shield and its angle gives protection from above. The distance of the shield from the body and the rectangular shape of the space enclosed between the inside surface of the shield and the concave front of the body is important... This sculpture is the first single and separate male figure that I have done in sculpture and carrying it out in its final large scale was almost like the discovery of a new subject matter; the bony, edgy, tense forms were a great excitement to make... Like the bronze 'Draped Reclining Figure' of 1952-3 I think 'The Warrior' has some Greek influence, not consciously wished…”

Henry Moore (1898–1986) English artist

Quote from Moore's letter, (15 Jan. 1955); as cited in Henry Moore on Sculpture: a Collection of the Sculptor's Writings and Spoken Words, ed. Philip James, MacDonald, London 1966, p. 250
1940 - 1955

Arthur Schopenhauer photo
Dave Matthews photo

“That's the magic of this band: shooting from the hip. The lights have to follow our cues, because we're not going to follow their cues. We're not going to stick to a song the way it's supposed to be. Everything is up to us. That's music to me. That's American music. We're an American band.”

Dave Matthews (1967) American singer-songwriter, musician and actor

Dave Matthews, Rolling Stone interview "The Boys of Summer" (June 16, 2005). Eliscu, Jenny (2005). "The Boys of Summer" http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/davematthewsband/articles/story/7371942/the_boys_of_summer Rolling Stone (accessed June 19. 2006)

Prince photo

“The internet's completely over. […] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.”

Prince (1958–2016) American pop, songwriter, musician and actor

Daily Mirror: Prince - world exclusive interview: Peter Willis goes inside the star's secret world http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2010/07/05/prince-world-exclusive-interview-peter-willis-goes-inside-the-star-s-secret-world-115875-22382552/ (5 July 2010)

David Toop photo
Bobby Seale photo

“We're hip to the fact that Superman never saved no black people. You got that?”

Bobby Seale (1936) American activist

Transcript from Seale's conspiracy case as part of the Chicago 8 (October 1968)

Roger Ebert photo
Douglas Coupland photo
Linus Torvalds photo

“Guess what? Wheels have been round for a really long time, and anybody who "reinvents" the new wheel is generally considered a crackpot. It turns out that "round" is simply a good form for a wheel to have. It may be boring, but it just tends to roll better than a square, and "hipness" has nothing what-so-ever to do with it.”

Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker

Attributed
Source: on Desktop_architects: Drivers – below the OS, Fri Aug 3 18:12:57 PDT 2007 https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2007-August/002446.html.

Vanna Bonta photo

“Fame factories develop and promote hip icons who exude superior airs.”

Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)

State of the Art (2000)

Jonathan Franzen photo

“Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.”

Jonathan Franzen (1959) novelist

Voices in the Wilderness The Guardian (Saturday 28 September 2002).

Marcus Orelias photo

“Officially I've been crowned as Hip-Hop's Historian.”

Marcus Orelias (1993) American actor, rapper, songwriter, author and entrepreneur

Blackouts
20s A Difficult Age (2017)

Ba Jin photo
Ralph Bakshi photo
Rachele Brooke Smith photo

“I worked so hard to be so versatile in so many different things. There’s just not a lot of girls who can do ballet and flips and break dance and crazy hip-hop moves. So I would really encourage young dancers and actors to work to be as versatile as possible.”

Rachele Brooke Smith (1987) American actress

Exclusive Interview with Center Stage: On Pointe’s Rachele Brooke Smith http://talknerdywithus.com/2016/06/14/exclusive-interview-with-center-stage-on-pointes-rachele-brooke-smith/ (June 14, 2016)

RZA photo
Toni Morrison photo
Heidi Klum photo
John Fante photo
Ron Paul photo
Lil Wayne photo

“I could get your brains for a bargain, like I bought it from Target. Hip hop is my supermarket; shopping cart full of fake hip hop artists.”

Lil Wayne (1982) American rapper, singer, record executive and businessman

"Phone Home"
1990s, Tha Carter III (2008)

George W. Bush photo
Nigel Lythgoe photo
Mos Def photo

“Hip Hop is prosecution evidence/ The out of court settlement/ Ad space for liquor”

Mos Def (1973) American rapper and actor

From "Hip-Hop"
Album Black On Both Sides

Chuck Palahniuk photo
Jack Benny photo

“Clyde: I wondered why he had his hand on his hip when I shot him.”

Jack Benny (1894–1974) comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor

The Jack Benny Program (Radio: 1932-1955), The Jack Benny Program (Television: 1950-1965)

Tom Petty photo
Andrew Ure photo
Mike Tyson photo
Rousas John Rushdoony photo
John Mayer photo

“There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.”

John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter

AIM Celebrity Interview http://music.aol.com/artists/aim_celebrity_interview/john_mayer (November 2005)

Talib Kweli photo
Natalie Merchant photo
Albert Szent-Györgyi photo

“It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to study the two items separately. Similarly, we can not separate life from living matter, in order to study only living matter and its reactions. Inevitably, studying living matter and its reactions, we study life itself”

Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893–1986) Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937

Mi è impossibile cingere i fianchi di una ragazza con il mio braccio destro e serrare il suo sorriso nella mia mano sinistra, per poi tentare di studiare i due oggetti separatamente. Allo stesso modo, non ci è possibile separare la vita dalla materia vivente, allo scopo di studiare la sola materia vivente e le sue reazioni. Inevitabilmente, studiando la materia vivente e le sue reazioni, studiamo la vita stessa.
The Nature of Life, Academic press, 1948.

Ned Kelly photo
Thomas Jackson photo
Robert T. Bakker photo

“I am the owner of my shoulders, the tenant of my hips.”

Malcolm de Chazal (1902–1981) Mauritian artist

Sens-plastique

Aretha Franklin photo

“Step n' move your hips
With a feelin' from side to side
Sit yourself down in your car
And take a ride.And while you're movin'
Rock steady
Rock steady baby.
Let's call this song exactly what it is”

Aretha Franklin (1942–2018) American musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist

What it is -what it is - what it is
"Rock Steady", from Young (1972)
Song lyrics

Heidi Klum photo
Howard Bloom photo
Neal Stephenson photo
Brad Paisley photo
Stephen King photo
Arthur Schopenhauer photo

“O city ladies'
Your coats wrapped,
Your hips a possession
Your shoes arched
Your walk is sharp
Your breasts
Pertain to lingerie”

George Oppen (1908–1984) American poet

from "Discrete Series", 1934; New Collected Poems, New Directions, 2002, ISBN 0-811-21488-5

Hannah Gadsby photo
Neil Peart photo
Phil Brooks photo

“I would love to talk to you about that, Josh, but there's something else I want to bring up, and that's this. (Holds up a screenplay entitled "Live For The Moment: The Jeff Hardy Story") I had a friend in a fancy Hollywood agency the other day, and he ran across this little gem. Somebody actually took the time to write a screenplay about the Jeff Hardy story. So I was paging through it, and lo and behold, it culminates, of course, with Jeff conquering his demons and beating me her tonight in a TLC match at SummerSlam. What a great feelgood story, Josh, all except, of course, for the ending, which is not reality-based. It's fake, it's phony, just like everybody who lives in this town. I'd go as far as to say that I'm the only real person in this building right now. I wish I could say it's a Los Angeles epidemic, but the fact is it's worldwide. You have people that falsely idolize what they see in movies and on television; you have housewives in Iowa that subscribe to U. S. Weekly, US Weekly, or whatever it's called, so they can model their hair after Kate Gosselin, instead of helping their own children with their homework; you have little kids all over the world, millions of them, who idolize the "hip, cool star", and it doesn't matter if that hip cool star is some dork vampire in Twilight, or if it's Jeff Hardy. It doesn't matter if that hip cool star has a reprehensible, reckless lifestyle. You know, it doesn't matter if the collective intelligence of this entire country continues to spiral downward, day in and day out. It doesn't matter as long as it's cool, right? You know why they don't make movies about a guy like me? It's cause I don't support your poisoned society. I don't support this den of iniquity known as Hollywood. No, instead, I'm dismissed as being preachy, except I'm not preachy—I never have been. I just tell the truth. You know, I'm not a screenwriter either, but tonight I think I'll take a stab at it. Tonight I'm gonna rewrite the ending of "The Jeff Hardy Story."”

Phil Brooks (1978) American professional wrestler and mixed martial artist

It's gonna be horrifying. It's gonna be very, very graphic. It might be hard to watch for a lot of people, but it will have a happy ending: new World Heavyweight Champion—CM Punk.
At SummerSlam
Friday Night SmackDown

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