Missy Elliott Quotes

• Music should be your escape.

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• And basically I always said when I was little that if I ever became successful or a celebrity, I would buy her this huge house and she would never have to work anymore. And I’ve done that. So I feel happy about doing that.

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• I love my mother. She’s my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

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• I got a mother who’s very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

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• Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

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• Everybody is doing the same old thing.

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• I mean, when it’s time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

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• I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there’s some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that’s really important to us, and music is all we’ve really got.

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• I want people to feel the heat while they walk down the street and they’re just kickin’ it.

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• I want to be cutting-edge.

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• I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.

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• I wasn’t born a superstar.

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• I’m not a person that’s walkin’ down the street looking mean all day.

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• I’m not tryin’ to come off as the best lyricist.

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• I’ve always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

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• It’s just that back then we didn’t know that was considered being a coproducer. I would sit on the side and say what I wanted musically, but at the time we thought if you aren’t the one playing it, you don’t get the credit. Now you’ll start seeing my name listed as producer.

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• My Struggles is a record close to me. It’s about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

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• No, because I don’t want to hear what’s hot and feel I have to copy it. I’ll just make up my own thing.

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• Now everybody’s sampling.

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• What my home life is like now is great.

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Missy Elliott (23)

Birth:	1st July, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Artist, Dancer, Record Producer, Singer

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