Vince Staples Quotes

Just be comfortable. Sometimes, when open up for a bigger artist at a conventional concert, you can feel unwelcome. But when you’re playing a festival, people come to see music in general – so don’t be fearful. The people are there to enjoy and discover new music so approach the show with confidence and optimism.

I don’t really have a focus, I just make music.

I’m just saying what I think about at the time. I don’t make a point to do anything, really.

I say what I have to say at the moment and when I don’t want to say it anymore, then I won’t.

That’s the crazy part about music, that you can just be someone and it means something.

It’s human nature, we take a mile when we’re given an inch. We’re crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don’t even exist anymore!

When I was a kid I used to want to be a Beethoven or something. That was my dream.

We still wading in the water…
Cocaine, blunts, marinating in the water.
Lean and took a puff, and then she gave it to my father,
Used to take the bullets out so I could play with the revolver.
Satan serenading ever since I was a toddler,
Tell ’em talk is cheap…niggas living for the dollar.

The work is the understanding of the people that you’re speaking for. The further you get away from that, the further you are from the work.

I feel like it’s impossible to be completely yourself, because you’ll always get bored; you have to push your own limits.

When kids can’t come to my show, I feel bad, because grown-up 21 and up people really probably don’t need my help as much as an 11-year-old child.

When you have this job [as an entertainer] you’re suddenly not a person anymore.