Hip Quotes

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.

We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.

I don't believe I've ever played a hip dude. I don't think I would have the wherewithal to do that.

We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.

As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx.

A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and bars along the Sunset Strip.

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.

When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.

I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars.

How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

That's part of the reason I called the album 'Shoot From The Hip.' I did feel it was time to open up more.

I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'

We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life.

I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area.

MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.

I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.

But I think there are more good young actors now than ever. It's a medium that everyone wants to be connected with - it is such a hip medium going into the 21st century.

I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

Detroit is right now a new Mecca for Hip Hop.

I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.

It doesn't mean that I won't be sexy or hip or anything like that.