Vince Staples Quotes

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Vince Staples

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 2, 1993

Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.

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Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.

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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.

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When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.

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Some people make their best music when life is horrible.

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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.

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I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people because when I'm able to walk down the street, I want them to feel like I've done something for them and helped their life because I've never felt that way about a musician.

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The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.

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At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in their own mind. And you couldn't trust anyone. No one was good.

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What's important to me is people just being people.

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My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.

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The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.

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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.

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Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.

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You're either ghetto or you're not.

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Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.

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I want to have an impact because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

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Care and pity are two different things.

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