Action Bronson Quotes

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Action Bronson

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 2, 1983

I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.

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I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.

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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.

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My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'

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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.

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This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.

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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

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The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.

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I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.

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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.

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I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.

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I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.

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The best rappers I know are, like, air-conditioner men.

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Did I collect baseball cards? I've got 10 books full of plastic in my mother's house. All the Upper Decks, the Fleers, the Fleer Ultras. My grandfather brought me to the trade shows. I collected Marvel cards, too.

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I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in everything. Maybe it's not just a repetitive hook telling you what the song is about - you have to use your brain a little bit.

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You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.

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The first rappers I ever got into were Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, and Nas. Those are the guys. Those are the dudes that flipped my wig.

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My main influence is Kool G Rap and Cam'ron, pretty much. If you were to mix those two people up, I wish that would be me... This is my voice. I sound like nobody; I sound like me.

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I'm gonna be honest. I don't care about much. I care about people liking my music. I made it very far without nothing being on radio.

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If I would make a song dedicated to any woman, it would have to be my mom because, you know, she's been there since I came out of her. She would have to be the one... my mom or my daughter.

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