Quotes of Hip - somelinesforyou

“ Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip. ”

- John Lennon

“ I would think of more like a frog... big thighs, huge thighs. Kermit thighs. We're going to blend Kermit the Frog with Miss Piggy. This is actually the illegitimate child of Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy. ”

- George Lucas

“ There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all. ”

- Gore Vidal

“ I was extreme… from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band - I did it all, and all at the same time. ”

- Pink

“ I'm on the radio because I love hip-hop. I represent that community, but there are so many other aspects to who I am as a person. ”

- Angie Martinez

“ I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy. ”

- Dennis Miller

“ I am honored and quite proud that a class is being taught on my sensationalist lyrics, unique style and fashion and leadership role within the hip-hop community. ”

- Lil’ Kim

“ Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz and have incorporated by sampling some elements that come from jazz. ”

- Herbie Hancock

“ I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip hop to trip hop, house, drum and bass, and experimental and improv and jazz. ”

- Nelly Furtado

“ You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start dropping. ”

- Cindy Crawford

“ Venus is now astrologically square with Pluto. That means there isn't a hip planet left. ”

- Jim Critchfield

“ She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket. ”

- Raymond Chandler

“ Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. ”

- Norman Mailer

“ A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ The fact that young hip-hop artists are searching for the jazz roots of their music acknowledges the greatness of roots, helps a person get a sense of being grounded, of being attached, of coming from somewhere. ”

- Herbie Hancock

“ Overall but the rap that we're exposed to is maybe 15% of what's out there. What the major companies have done in the last few years is find out that they couldn't find any more Whitesnakes. They took a look at their marketing budget and put it behind hip-hop and figured out how to make it pop. ”

- Chuck D.

“ I don't think a lot of people have been privy to understanding that there's this talent in hip-hop all over the earth that's just as good. It's just that everything out of the U.S. proclaims to be the best, especially L.A. and New York, being that they're the nerve centers and media capitals of the most predominantly media-emitting country in the world. ”

- Chuck D.

“ You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You've hit no traitor on the hip. You've dashed no cup from perjured lip… ”

- Charles Mackay

“ 'Common sense is the guy that tells you that you ought to have your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip… ”

- Raymond Chandler

“ From the get-go, my musical influences come from hip pop, popular stuff. And then I backtracked into the blues, jazz and classical. I always had a pop sensibility. I mean I'm making records to sell em! ”

- Dave Mason

“ Marilyn Monroe's breasts were not big, Jayne Mansfield was big, but not by today's standards. She made the most of what she had. She pulled her stomach in and used those built-up bras. I appreciate a balanced body, a wasp waist, full hips and breasts… ”

- Anton LaVey

“ I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important. ”

- John F. Kerry

“ 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 in 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. ”

- Frank Zappa

“ That's one of the reasons for the title of the record, Future 2 Future, because here they are creating kind of a new musical approach, underground approach, but coming out of what used to be underground but what has become popular, which is the whole hip-hop scene. ”

- Herbie Hancock

“ The girls are trotted out twice during each floor show, do nothing more strenuous than shake an ankle, wriggle a hip or twitch a shoulder-and it has taken choreographer Douglas Coudy weeks to teach them to do that. ”

- Arthur Gelb
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