It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.
Kendrick LamarRead
As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Authenticity in music allows for limitless connections with listeners.
Kendrick Lamar emphasizes the significance of genuineness in music creation. He believes that as long as his music is authentic and true to himself, there are no bounds to the number of listeners who can connect with and appreciate it, highlighting the power of real art to resonate with a wide audience.
Themes
MusicAuthenticityConnectionExpressionArt
In practice
Example use cases
Using this quote to inspire a group of aspiring musicians at a workshop about the importance of genuine expression in art.
More from Kendrick Lamar
All quotes βI've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.
Kendrick LamarRead
Every time I write these words they become a taboo,_x000D_ _x000D_ Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true,_x000D_ _x000D_ Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof.
Kendrick LamarRead
This is the thing about hip-hop music and where people get it most misconstrued: It's all hip-hop. You can't say that just what I do is hip-hop, because hip-hop is all energies. James Brown can get on the track and mumble all day. But guess what? You felt his soul on those records.
Kendrick LamarRead
The majority of my interactions with police were not good. There were a few good ones who were actually protecting the community. But then you have ones from the Valley. They never met me in their life, but since I'm a kid in basketball shorts and a white T-shirt, they wanna slam me on the hood of the car. Sixteen years old.
Kendrick LamarRead
People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing - continue to rock it - because obviously, God wants you here.
Kendrick LamarRead
Similar quotes
I think what you're always looking for as artists is to be honest and to continue to be honestly driven by that which you are passionately engaged with. It should need not be forced.
Kenneth BranaghRead
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
Ernest GainesRead
I respect the fact that a director has studied the text and the road map of work before us, the subtleties, interconnections, underpinnings... His job is to paint the entire picture and knows all the colors that have to be in it.
Ruby DeeRead
I haven't changed my mind about modernism from the first day I ever did it... It means integrity; it means honesty; it means the absence of sentimentality and the absence of nostalgia; it means simplicity; it means clarity. That's what modernism means to me.
Paul RandRead
Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place.
William WordsworthRead
Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem... some strategy in order to pave the reader's way to the impact of this or that line.
Joseph BrodskyRead