Future Quotes

I want to have bosses around me, 'cause at the end of the day, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, you want to make relationships to keep 'em, you know what I'm saying. So I make my relationships to keep 'em - all my relationships - not try to burn bridges that you may need to cross over one day.

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I gotta have my long trench coats, a nice scarf for the winter time when you're walking around, and some nice fitted jeans to go with the trench coats.

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I just like being versatile, giving new styles and being creative.

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I want to show my versatility and how diverse I am, how I approach the track, my rhythm, my melodies. It's something different. Sometimes, the things I do haven't ever been done.

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Don't ask for a million dollars. Ask for the stuff that'll get you a million dollars - your health, your brain, your sanity, wisdom. Prepare me for when I do get that million. Make sure I don't go crazy, make sure I help my family.

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For me, it's always been one of my pet peeves to keep people engaged and talking, and just always being interested in what I have going on. To keep the level of creativity always turned up to the max.

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My daddy didn't even sign my birth certificate. So I ain't never had his last name.

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When you're a man, you want to make decisions for your family, and sometimes the lady doesn't see what you see.

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I'm the top rapper in the world.

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I want my money to be different. I'm not trying to have rapper money. My goal is to be able to get everything from the world that I can get.

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I don't even talk about being locked up in any of my songs.

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I want that longevity in the career, so if you don't know how to get it, you trying to chase that high, you trying to continue to chase your dreams and conquer things you never thought you could get. And you just want to get there too soon, so you taking the wrong moves to try and compensate what's not happening.

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I want to judge the nannies that's around my child. I don't want to pay for a nanny that I never met, that I never got a chance to interview. That's not the life I want for my child. I want to be involved 100 percent in all decisions made. This my flesh and blood.

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Rumours are rumours. The Internet is going to report whatever they have to speculate on.

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'I Won' is not a love song. It's just me uplifting women in general. I'm giving women the power to treat themselves as a trophy - to show that and know it in yourself and be confident - because when they do that, whoever they're with is winning.

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Just understand that the type of music that I make is something special.

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When you mix a record that someone else is on, you've got to send it to them. They've got to like the mix, you got to like the mix, the producer's got to like the mix. Too many people are involved!

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I love 'Troy.' I love Brad Pitt's character - when he went to Troy, he just ran over it. Then this particular scene where they made this big old horse or something out of wood, and they hid inside the wood.

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I'm an entrepreneur. This is my life. This my career. This the way I eat.

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I want to keep doing what I'm doing and see how far I can go. See when it stops. See what the end is like. I want to make this moment last as long as I can make it. If I miss a day, I'm afraid I'll miss out on a smash record.

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I want to give the music attention and be in the studio. I want to give all my attention to my music, my kids, my family, so I just wanna focus on certain things besides social media.

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Everybody can relate to being real or true. Somehow, someway, you want to be real and true.

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You have to just do music, and you're becoming this entertainer, and so many people require so much of your time for different things, different obligations you have to make money, or just different obligations you have as a person in whatever the situation may be.

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You get inspiration from craziest places. It's just about being creative. You gotta step outside that box, you know what I'm saying, to reach the people. You never know who can feel it, who it can connect to.

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People think fashion shows take hours - it's 15 minutes. You walk in, do red carpet, take the pictures, you sit down... and then it's over.

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I just want to be an inspiration. I'm a rock star - I'm Future Hendrix.

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I wanna be one of those special guys. Jimi Hendrix wasn't afraid of who he was. That's the part I emulate.

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For just being a black artist in rock n' roll and be able to step outside and create, and make great music. And just be different. Just a different breed. And that's what I love about Jimi Hendrix's music - the way he plays the guitar is so different. He's just an icon all around.

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Jimi Hendrix, he was a rock star. But he played guitar; I don't. I've just found ways to use words to make my mark in this history book.

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I feel like guys, girls, whatever it is, you just come out hoping to make the best record. You just try to have a conversation and just create what you've talked about. Whatever you find to fit the beat at the time, what the person is down for, wherever the beat takes you towards.

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I'm not just a hip-hop artist; I feel like I'm a rock star.

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Every day, I bring out something new. You got to be prepared - you got to have a few outfits laying out for when you wake up, in case you want to change, to set the mood.

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That's the time that I enjoy: away from the cameras, away from the audience, the scenery of going out to eat and everybody's staring at me.

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I feel like I'm doing something in Atlanta that nobody ever did, as far as rap. If it happens to end up on the top 40 or the pop charts, it doesn't mean I meant to go pop. It's just where the music took me. It started at the bottom, and it rises.

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I was shy talking about certain things, and I was shy with being honest because I didn't want people to judge me talking about fatherhood and how somebody should have my child around me.

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My kids gotta understand: they gotta make a sacrifice, having a superstar dad.

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It takes an astronaut so long to get to space - that's how long it takes to catch up on my music.

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I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying?

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I don't take anything for granted. I know there are a million and one dudes who are rapping, wishing they were in my shoes.

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It's hard to get burned out or uninspired, man.

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I'm not for the publicity stunts. Leave my son out of the publicity stunts.

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Everybody wanna be a super dad and the best dad ever, but sometimes, I'm just realizing that I'm not perfect.

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People respond to something melodic.

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In Atlanta, there's no limitation to where you can take your music. You can be as creative as you want to be.

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I'll always keep you guessing. I'm living up to the name. It's powerful. That's just what I do.

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I have a crazy work ethic. I'll do 20 songs a day. I love music that much.

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If I told a lie, then I got to come back and correct it years later. I hate that I have to be the person that touch on their life and be personal and be direct with certain situations, but man, I'm glad that it's me than them.

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My sister wants a Rollie. When I buy one now, I gotta buy like five, ten. It's crazy.

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You want to create your own path, no matter what situation you're in.

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I feel like I just wanna go back to being more underground.

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It takes compromise to raise a child, especially with a schedule like mine.

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My career choice is my career choice. Just stepping out of that zone, to be able to be a provider. I understand my position as a provider and my role as a dad also... Just being able to be comfortable with it.

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All gigs are good gigs. There's never a bad one. Everything have a reason behind it; you just got to find that reason.

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Jupiter, Pluto, pick a planet: we can go there. I just got a bit more work to do in the music industry, and we're going to space, baby.

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You gotta catch the sauce. Move with me... I'm dripping sauce.

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My style is a part of my music. You can't be an artist and not put any thought or effort into the way you appear.

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I'm not trying to feed off of a concept that another artist had - that's not what I do.

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I just enjoy dressing up and getting all the new sneakers and all the hot exclusive clothes - I did even when I was young.

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I like to express myself through the clothes that I wear.

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I've always been into fashion since I was a kid. I love fashion. I appreciate it.

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Artists can most definitely control the culture of fashion. Kids and different fans look up to us for dressing pointers.

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Even if it comes off natural, everyone has a fashion sense.

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My fashion sense is relatable but stands out because it's my own.

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It's about being creative and drawing on who you are when you wake up, and expressing yourself through fashion.

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Just wanna have plaques on plaques. That's what we goin' for.

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Man, I wanna be there for everybody. I wanna make everybody happy, and I can't... That's why I stay in the studio.

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I want people to say, 'He evolved throughout his whole career.' I wanna be able to have the most number one records ever. The most Top 10 records ever.

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Quality is everything to me, and I perfect everything I do.

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Jay Z wasn't great when 2pac and Biggie was alive.

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I feel a responsibility for telling the truth.

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You got to make the most of your second life. I was born Nayvadius, but now I'm Future. Should I dwell on what Nayvadius was supposed to be? I get a chance to experience life as something else. I wasn't supposed to be like this.

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I'm most comfortable when I'm in the studio and music playing.

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When you grow up in something, you don't even know if it's bad or good. You just know that's how it is.

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I'm always a fan of good business moves.

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Don't matter if you're rich, poor or whatever, you just want to be able to have your own experiences in life and listen and learn from other people.

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You know that I can make hits. You know I can do all these rap records.

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When I first used Auto-Tune, I never used it to sing. I wasn't using it the way T-Pain was. I used it to rap because it makes my voice sound grittier.

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At times, I think, 'What would I rather be doing than music?' That's what you have to ask yourself, if you feel like you need to be somewhere else... But there's nothing else I want to do more than music. That's why I stay in the booth.

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The most calmest place I can be is the studio. And like, I stay in there 'cause I know, when I come out, it's back to reality. Man, if you're angry all day, man, stay in the studio.

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I want to be the most melodic artist. 'His music ability, the way he write, his creativity is undeniable.' I want people to say that about me.

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If you behind me, I'm not going to look back and try and figure out what you're doing behind me.

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I ain't giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain't got nothing else to say for you.

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I have to go places beyond music.

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At the end of the day, I'm out of here - above anything.

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My kids need to be around me. And the times that I'm out of town, if I'm not too busy, they can come to me.

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I'm just not going to settle for anything, you know?

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Man, I love being a dad. It's super fun.

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The melodies I come up with, they're not normal.

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When I'm in the studio, I stay in the studio, like, sometimes 20 hours out the day.

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My music is like a diary. I use every experience.

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You got one life to live. So I'm living it the way I want to live it.

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You don't question magic.

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If I'm the biggest artist in the world, cool, but I want to just be me.

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If you're doing what you think people might like, rather than doing what you like, people will see through it.

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All I know is record, record, record, record.

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It don't matter who I'm working with. I just feel like I want to make the best record possible.

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I try to look cool. I strategize. Sometimes it's like - that's part of the strategizing, to make it seem like I don't think about it.

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