Eminem Quotes

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Eminem

Profession : Rapper

Birth : October 17, 1972

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin', but I felt like a fighter comin' up, man. I felt like, you know, I'm being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

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Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.

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I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

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I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.

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There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know.

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It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.

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Being a student of hip-hop in general, you take technical aspects from places. You may take a rhyme pattern or flow from Big Daddy Kane or Kool G Rap.

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I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it.

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I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.

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I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

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Touring is hard on the body.

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The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

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When 'Paul's Boutique' came out, I was one of the fans that didn't get it.

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I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

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The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.

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A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I'm joking and when I'm serious.

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As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't, I get rusty.

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Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.

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I stopped watching TV because of 'The Wire.' Like, 'The Wire' ruined everything for me because I don't even want to watch anything else now.

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Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

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