Lauryn Hill Quotes

As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.

I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.

I have a problem with procrastination. I have a great deal of difficulty deciding what to wear. It's a woman thing.

I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else.

I believe God will make a way.

Tell me who I've got to be, to get some reciprocity

The sweetest thing I've ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone, the soft caress of happiness, the way you walk, your style of dress, I wish I didn't get so weak, oh baby just to hear you speak, makes me argue just to see how much your in love with me

I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.

My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we've talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don't have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I'm trying to be obedient to His will.

Who you going to tell when the repercussions spin, showing off your ass because you think it's a trend.

Miscommunication leads to complication.

Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.

The work is constant. There's a time for rest, but I don't believe in getting comfortable just because everyone says you've arrived.

Tomorrow, our seeds will grow. All we need is dedication.

Everyday is another chance to get things right.

Let optimists rule the world.

It's more important to be righteous than to be right.

We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.

I have inner peace. It's a different person.

You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.

I'm in a very close-knit, very, very tight family. My grandmother had 13 kids, so we had a lot of family like 50, 60 grandchildren and we all lived in Jersey, relatively in the same area. So every time there was something, my entire family was there. And I just believed everybody's family was like that.

Hip-Hop started out in the heart

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.

I used to play my records aloud until one night my mother was like, "This is too loud. I'm not having it," and so I put on headphones. But the headphones didn't stretch all the way to my bed from the record player, so I had to sleep on the floor in order to hear the records. I slept on the floor right next to the record player until I was probably 19 years old.

I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.

And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it.

I'm trying to be a loving and caring mother, a loving and caring wife-to-be, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and caring friend, a responsible person. And every day is another opportunity for me to be successful at that.

I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.

My parents had a love for music. There were so many records, so much music constantly being played. My mother played piano, my father sang, and we were always surrounded in music.

Consequence is no coincidence.

A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.

In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.

I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it?

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!

Real religion is no religion at all.

Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies

God teaches me about reality, so when he tells me to do something, I do, because I'm led to.

I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me.

Now you are meeting another Lauryn, so it's good to be reintroduced.

God said, All right, I'm gonna show you. I made you what you are. God takes care of me. I'm just the one who delivers the message.

You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home.

Sometimes we all need to take time and give thanks.

As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.

I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"