We’ve collected the best Missy Elliott Quotes. Use them as an inspiration.
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When you think of Missy, you can’t say, ‘Missy reminded me of someone else.’ There was no Missy comparison before.
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I don’t think Puffy knows what he did for hip-hop. Because he intertwined hip-hop and R&B so that people weren’t intimidated.
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I think Aaliyah has influenced artists like a Ciara.
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I know how domestic violence can affect a family, and I want to do everything I can to stop it from happening to others. The most important thing we can do is teach kids that they can break the cycle.
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Everybody is doing the same old thing.
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Me personally, I don’t ask too much, but I do ask Him to continue to bless me successfully, financially, and just to keep me humble.
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‘Soul Train’ means so much to me.
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When I first started out in the music industry and went to Elektra Records, I didn’t go to be an artist, I went to get a record label started. And they said in order to have a label deal, I had to be an artist – so that’s what I did.
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Rule number one in negotiating anything with Missy is never try and run me over. Never push me, because I am a very strong woman. I’m nice, but I’m very strong. When it gets down gritty, I can get grittier. Never, ever underestimate me.
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If you got talent, you just have to do you.
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I want to be cutting-edge.
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No, I’m a flirtatious person; I’ll flirt all day long, but it really is hard to get into that when I’m so into the music, and I’m in the studio all day long and all night sometimes. That’s not an exaggeration.
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I don’t want to get caught up and be an artist always on the go. Because once you do that, it’s hard to get into the studio and do what I do.
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I’m not tryin’ to come off as the best lyricist.
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Before Missy, there was no comparison to what Missy was doing.
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Seeing my mother become very strong and very independent had a huge impact on me.
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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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Music is a male-dominated field.
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I want to be cutting-edge.
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I’ve always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.
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Now everybody’s sampling.
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My blood pressure was always up from just overworking.
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I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.
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He was like, ‘I want to get in the studio with you.’ Who turns down Pharrell?
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If you got talent, you just have to do you.
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All of the trials and tribulations from personal to the artist. It shows that I’m human. People see the glamorous stuff, but they don’t see the background.
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I don’t want to be oh-so-brag-about-it, but ‘The Rain’ is hot.
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Music is a male-dominated field.
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I’ve always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.
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Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.
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I talked about my father being abusive to my mother – people have never heard me talk about anything like that. That brings people a little bit more personal with Missy.
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My blood pressure was always up from just overworking.
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I can’t complain. I think when you get to a certain point, you shouldn’t complain because there’s so many people who would kill to get to this point.
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You don’t make any money being an artist. Writing and producing? You get your money from that. You live comfortable.
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All of the trials and tribulations from personal to the artist. It shows that I’m human. People see the glamorous stuff, but they don’t see the background.
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