Drake Quotes

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Drake

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 24, 1986

Surface R&B doesn't work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show - that's not really where it's at any more. It's becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

Drake

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don't know if I want to be that guy.

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I push myself in a lot of aspects when I write a song. I write a piece and where most people would stop and say, 'Oh, that's the hook right there,' I'll move that to the first four bars of the verse and do a new hook.

Drake

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

Drake

When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

Drake

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

Drake

When you're on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn't there at the end of the night, you feel empty.

Drake