Swizz Beatz's Quotes
Born: 1978-09-13
Profession: Musician
Nation: American
Biography of Swizz Beatz
I didn't go to prom - I DJ'd all my proms.
Tags: PromI don't even know how to sell a piece of artwork of mine because it's so personal.
Tags: Mine, Personal, PieceI think K-Pop is a type of expression.
Tags: Expression, TypeI think that a lot of people just don't understand creativity.
Tags: Creativity, UnderstandInstead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.
Tags: Art, Change, PersonalSet your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.
Tags: Business, Plan, WinThere's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual.
Tags: Art, Individual, WrongWhen I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.
Tags: Head, Name, SomeoneYou know, I never did music for money. I did music to hear myself in the club, and to hear my creation on the radio.
Tags: Hear, Money, MusicI started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places.
Tags: Crazy, Off, WantedMy idea to bridge the world together with music starting in Asia and going to the West is something that is new, untapped and leading to the future of bringing the worlds together.
Tags: Future, Music, TogetherWhen I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches, Lee pants with the patches, leather hats - which I still wear now. All hip-hop stuff, all South Bronx stuff.
Tags: Growing, Stuff, ThoughtI started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.
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I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.
Tags: Days, Mood, WriteJust as the best way to judge an adult is by his or her record collection, the best way to judge a pub is by the albums on its jukebox.
Tags: Best, Her, JudgeThe simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.
Tags: Funny, Hard, WritingI always save a huge book for a flight, because then you read it at both airports and on the plane and by the time you get home you're a quarter of the way through and it doesn't feel so unmanageable any more.
Tags: Book, Home, TimeI was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who solves mysteries.
Tags: Another, Book, WritingI'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I don't think has anything to do with fiction.
Tags: Actually, Good, PowerPlot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.
Tags: Happens, Stand, Writing