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Best Kevin Gates Quotes About Music
I love to make music, I love to get tattoos…That’s just what I love. If I wasn’t getting paid I’d still do it. – Kevin Gates
Any artist that’s as serious about making music as I am, I’m cool with that. But if you tellin’ me, Man, send me a verse and I’m a send you a verse. No. That’s not collaborating. We don’t know each other and I’m serious about this music. – Kevin Gates
Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I’m a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don’t notice. – Kevin Gates
Don’t get mad at me for being the best of what I was created to be. – Kevin Gates
Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right. – Kevin Gates
I don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing. – Kevin Gates
I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud. – Kevin Gates
When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way. – Kevin Gates
Any artist that’s as serious about making music as I am, I’m cool with that. But if you tellin’ me, Man, send me a verse and I’m a send you a verse. No. That’s not collaborating. We don’t know each other and I’m serious about this music. – Kevin Gates
I don’t pay attention to sales because it’s not about that for me. It’s about the music. Music is all I have. – Kevin Gates
If you look at the movie ‘Belly,’ I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual. – Kevin Gates
Inspirational Quotes About Life
I’ve always stood on my own two. I don’t need a team. I don’t do the entourage thing, 30 people, I don’t do that. That’s just not me. – Kevin Gates
I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.- Kevin Gates
look at other people’s lives, and some people feel like they’re too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, ’cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn’t have. So I still get them.- Kevin Gates
I came in the game with a different attitude than I have now. And I had to grow. I had to mature. In that growth and in that maturity, that point of maturity I realized that ay, the people that interview me, we really only having a conversation. And they not from the same walk of life that I am, so my life is super interesting to them. – Kevin Jerome Gilyard
If I tell the truth about me, what can the world say? I’d love to be accepted, but I’m not seeking acceptance. If you are a fan, it’s because you’re a fan of who I am psychologically, emotionally, and individually. The world can relate to a human being more than it can relate to a superstar.- Kevin Gates
If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you’re destined for failure.- Kevin gates
I suffer from depression. Severe cases of it. Not one case of depression, not a severe case, but severe cases of depression. Music is my only outlet, it’s therapeutic to me. It’s a release. It’s how I vent emotionally.- Kevin Gates
The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can’t make music.- Kevin Gates
I’m no Internet person.- Kevin Gates
I love to be clean. I wear the same things, all of my clothes pretty much look the same. I’m a plain and simple type of guy. I don’t really do a lotta busy colors and things of that nature. I feel like less is more. – Kevin Gates
Money coming, money gotta flip it. I ain’t waiting on nobody, I’m go get it. – Kevin Gates
It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.- Kevin Gates
Knowledge is provided but only to those who need to know.- Kevin Gates
I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.- Kevin Gates
I’m a super-sensitive individual also. The smallest thing might stand out to me. I might go make a song about this interview. I live life than rap about it. Who knows what I may say? I just really say what I feel. When I’m in the moment, whatever I’m feeling, I get it all out.- Kevin Gates
I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem. Anybody that has extreme highs and extreme lows is bipolar to any psychologist and that’s not necessarily the truth.- Kevin Gates
If I told you I was different would you understand the difference?- Kevin Gates
Let me tell you something about Tunechi – about that boy. That boy comes to the studio every day and grinds as if he doesn’t have a dollar in his pocket.- Kevin Gates
I’m inspired by everything that goes on around me. I’m a sponge, I’m very analytical. I notice the things that most people don’t notice. – Kevin Gates
Made men don’t make statements. You bigger than that, that’s phony. Want every n***a that rap, from Louisiana to make it. Medication then meditation and elevating to greatness.- Kevin Gates
I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.- Kevin Gates
Whatever an individual chooses to do with themselves, long as it doesn’t affect me and they’re respectful with it, I don’t care what they do. Because I’m not perfect and I have flaws, so who would I be to be judgmental? – Kevin Gates
When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about.- Kevin Gates
Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.- Kevin Gates
My mentality, I guess. I used to deal with things totally differently than the way that I deal with things now. And I believe that comes through growth and maturity. And when you grow, your way of life changes. Everything changes. The things that were interesting at one point, they’re not as interesting now.- Kevin Gates
Best Quotes And Sayings About Jealousy
You can learn from a dummy. You can watch a dummy and learn what not to do. I’ve always been an observant individual. You don’t know how much you love something until you can’t do it. That’s one thing I can say that I learned. I learned how much I love music.- Kevin Gates
I don’t give anyone a reason to hate me, they create their own drama out of pure jealousy. Keep ears opened, mouth closed.- Kevin Gates
I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.- Kevin Gates
Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity? – Kevin Gates
I think California has the best energy.- Kevin Gates
I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.- Kevin Gates
I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.- Kevin Gates
Man, all lives matter.- Kevin Gates
I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin’. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.- Kevin Gates
Quotes About Love
The energy in the daytime is so different because everyone is so unhappy and depressed and you can pick up on that energy psycho-kinetically. So I like to come out at night. Everything’s settled, you can see more. – Kevin Gates
Loves a battlefield it’s not a one night stand. – Kevin Gates
Some may consider this a problem, I easily fall in love. – Kevin Gates
My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well. – Kevin Gates
I’m glad I can’t vote.- Kevin Gates
When you got wisdom and knowledge you supposed to spread the world wit some soulja love. – Kevin Gates
What poor person fits into society socially? You seem like a great person, but you’re not going to leave out of this building and put one of those homeless people in your car. You treat them differently than I do. When I finish with this salad here, you can eat it off my plate. That’s just the individual that I am because I’ve walked in those shoes at one time.- Kevin Gates
I don’t just listen to rap.- Kevin Gates
The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.- Kevin Gates
Best Quotes About Hustling
I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.- Kevin Gates
Why accept failure when success is free?- Kevin Gates
I always had music growing up, but the music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music.- Kevin Gates
In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.- Kevin Gates
I don’t have a religion. I ain’t nothing wrong with the church as long as they selling chicken. Cause I read the Quran, I read the Kabbalah, I read the Bible. They all got the same three basic principles: Love God, love your neighbor as yourself, and…As far as me being, I live by those principles.- Kevin Gates
You can’t make everybody else happy and still stay on top.- Kevin Gates
Quotes About Loyalty
Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Big L, Tupac. That was, like, my top five, generally.- Kevin Gates
I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose… I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.- Kevin Gates
Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted. A vision without action is merely a dream. Action, it’s the grind, it’s the hustle, it’s the persistence.- Kevin Gates
Without an understanding of bad…how can one truly have an appreciation of good.- Kevin Gates
Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.- Kevin Gates
I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand.- Kevin Gates
I got 6 jobs, I don’t get TIRED! – Kevin Gates
I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every project – ‘There’s One In Every Family,’ ‘Street Life’ – I had to have them. And he just stopped. And that was disappointing, ’cause that was my favorite rapper at one time.- Kevin Gates
I’m never on Twitter. I’m never on Instagram. And that’s not by choice: it’s just that those things never really interested me. I might post a picture here and there, but that ain’t really been my focus.- Kevin Gates
I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.- Kevin Gates
My daily conversation consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of the struggle.- Kevin Gates
I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.- Kevin Gates
Wealth is not of the pocket. It’s of the heart. It’s of the mind. I live like that. You could give me a fish and feed more for a day, but if you teach me to fish, you’ve fed me forever. So that’s really my philosophy with it all. – Kevin Gates
I got it out the mud, ain’t nobody ever gave me nothing.- Kevin Gates
I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.- Kevin Gates
It’s about really really being who you are as an individual and not apologizing for it, that’s what it is. I can feel the growth from my first mixtape to now. On every song, I want to give you a piece of who I am as an individual.- Kevin Gates
I’m a perfect imperfection. My craft has been perfected. I just need affection, emotionally. I’m an introvert but it comes off as aggression.- Kevin Gates
I love God, I love everybody else around me as myself, and I love my enemy.- Kevin Gates
I can’t say any artist inspired me, because I’m inspired by the things that go on around me.- Kevin Gates
Bein’ logical gave me a reason to doubt- Kevin Gates
I’ve had good times and I’ve had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I’m in because it could steer me into a depressed state.- Kevin Gates
I’m not afraid to make mistakes.- Kevin Gates
I’m a big skeptic so I won’t just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I’ma get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies. – Kevin Gates
Or help them get to the root of the problem. Or help them find out what the problem is. Because the problem lies with self, and a lot of times we don’t look inward as individuals. We always look for something else as a substitute, like a pacifier. You have to look at self first.- Kevin Gates
Yea I’m a convicted felon. I also have a masters in psychology, I also scored a 31 on my ACT at 16 in jail. – Kevin Gates
When you come up in the slums, having nothin’ make you humble- Kevin Gates
To inform, to improve, to make better, and I believe that’s what my first daughter did to me, so I named my first album after my first daughter. – Kevin Gates
Music’s the most therapeutic thing for me. Because I suffer from depression, and it’s my only form of releasing it. Just as you do with your recorder, I record my thoughts. I vent. It’s a channel. I’m an introvert when it comes to displaying my emotion. And because I’m such an introvert, the best thing for me to do is to talk to the mic.- Kevin Gates
Wise men change, fools stay the same. – Kevin Gates
Quotes About Being Yourself
I’m a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don’t look like the typical reader. I’m in Barnes & Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed to be in there. I am in there, pants sagging, hat backward. – Kevin Gates
I don’t really like talking. I like to execute. I’m not a talking person. I’m an action person.- Kevin Gates
I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.- Kevin Gates
I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I’m in.- Kevin Gates
The things that are most difficult for me to put into words and speak about, I put into my music. I’m just super passionate about my craft and super passionate about what I do.
Never break or fold, that’s what it takes to be major.- Kevin Gates
I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.- Kevin Gates
I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Lama.- Kevin Gates
Whatever I have a natural love for or respect or admiration for, I tattoo it on my body. My next tattoo is probably going to be Muhammad Ali. I’ve got Bob Marley, I’ve got Elvis, I’ve got Malcolm X. I’ve got so many tattoos. It’s crazy. I’m really running out of space. But when I go get tattoos, it’s therapeutic for me also.- Kevin Gates
Other Quotes
Everybody round you pretendin that they your partner, let you have a problem they won’t even help you out
Emotionally I’m an introvert but it come off as aggression
It is illegal to steal my feelings and leave
Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can’t have one with out the other. They coincide.
Everytime the leaves are changing it’s the loneliest time of the year
I don’t gang bang but I’ll bang tha thang!
Pray to god someone prays for me
Can you keep up with the lingo
I got 6 jobs I don’t get TIRED!
Fall in love fast, make sure I handle it delicate
I don’t have a religion. I ain’t nothing wrong with church as long as they selling chicken. Cause I read the Quran, I read the Kabalah, I read the Bible. They all got the same three basic principles: Love God, love your neighbor as yourself, and…As far as me being, I live by those principles.
The ones that hate you most tend to be the people you know
Out my window.. I see everything I dream about and wished I had
Say what you doin and not what you finna do
To be honest I am not lookin to be romantic, already got someone at home
Don’t respect a lot of rappers, feel I had a harder life.
I don’t believe in conspiracy theories. I’m just a cold-blooded investigator.
I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.
I have a cult-like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being.
Loyalty is hard to find; trust is easy to lose.
If you go back on your word..I won’t say anything but in my mind you punk for life.
I got it out the mud. Ain’t nobody ever gave me nothing.
Sometimes it’s painful to relive the past, but sometimes you gotta relive the past in order to heal from it.
One of my most popular songs, ‘Satellites,’ I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick.
What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have gone through, whatever – I rap about it.
I’ve just always been a reader.
Some’ll say life is a gamble, which means love is a casino. Everybody just playin’ to win.
Watch people daily and you will see their true colors.
I don’t get tired..what you tired of.
People will flip on you at the drop of a dime. Just be prepared so it doesn’t surprise you.
Entertainment and the streets don’t go together.
Having love for your enemy is a hard thing to do, real talk.
You don’t have to like it but you gotta respect it.
Climbin forward, strivin’, I’m a grinder. Rearview watchin’ what’s behind you: Peripheral, watchin’ what’s on side you.
Disconnecting from one you love can be a lonely ordeal. The feelings you will experience will change you.
When trying to destroy you, they Destroy themselves in the process. Fuck em’ — work harder!
I’m super serious about music. That’s, like, the only thing I’m serious about.
Don’t stress over people who couldn’t give 2 pennies about you.
Anybody that’s borderline brilliant — they’re gonna suffer with depression. Cause you don’t see the world how other people see the world. You see it for what it is. You see it different.
Sometimes you have to let people bump their heads to realize that they are not making sense. Don’t try to figure them out or it will drive you crazy.
Ice box where my heart used to be. Eskimo city, no feelings, I’ma igloo.
The struggle is real, but it doesn’t last forever.
I’m nowhere close to perfect, of this I’m sure, but God is!
Having a musical outlet is a pure blessing to the ears of thousands of fans.
Everybody around you pretending that they are your partner, let you have a problem they won’t even help you out.
When you level up your life will change. You will come across harder opponents and situations.
Sometimes the best move is no move.
Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.
Inspiration comes from many things, and in the life of KG his music is just one of them.
When people say my name, I want them to feel a certain way, everybody walks around so numb. They’re not in touch. In the technological age, we become cold-hearted. I’m going to provoke you to feel. That’s what Islah does.
I’ve always stood on my own toe. I don’t need a team. don’t do the entourage thing, 30 people. I Just do not do that. That’s just not me.
When you follow your heart, you always win!
I like where we at now — but I’m in love with where we going.”– Kevin Gates
You learn fast or you die young.”– Kevin Gates
I’m not made out of concrete. I’m a real person.”– Kevin Gates
I believe that life is a journey and for me to tell you my plans; things never go according to plan.
Don’t let nobody know that you are a monster. Keep it on the tuck and then surprise ’em.
I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.
If you not in your own lane, create one.
She says I’m a dog, but it takes one to know one.
Use the things that make you angry — as fuel to make you better.
Came from the bottom, we aim for the stars.
I was built for that pressure.
I experience great hurt, this hurt allows me to know I’m alive.
My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.
All things are obtained by Wisdom and Knowledge.
If it matters to you, pursue it aggressively.
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