I always wanted to be more of a person that people enjoy. Somebody that will make you laugh. I'm talking about just my personality, not necessarily how my music sounds.
Chance The RapperRead
I've come to understand that art is awesome and beautiful because it's a reflection of life - but it's just a reflection, and the real thing is my daughter.
Interpretation
Art represents life, but the true essence of life is found in personal relationships, particularly with loved ones.
Chance The Rapper reflects on the beauty of art as a representation of life, yet emphasizes that the true source of beauty and significance lies in his connection with his daughter. This quote suggests that while art can inspire and move us, the real-life experiences and relationships we cherish are what truly matter.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of family, this quote can highlight the priority of personal connections over artistic endeavors.
I always wanted to be more of a person that people enjoy. Somebody that will make you laugh. I'm talking about just my personality, not necessarily how my music sounds.
You can love somebody through anything when they're your child, and now that I understand that, it makes me work better with people; it makes me more understanding of how much dedication and love I can put into each line. There's no throwaway lines.
When I was working on 'Coloring Book,' I knew that I wanted it to be a beacon for independent artists and music makers with their own agenda.
When you're a Chicago artist, to play Lollapalooza, that's not a normal thing. It's artists on a path to a certain place that do that. Chief Keef did it; Kids These Days did it; Cool Kids did it. And I'm the next Cool-Kids-Chief, if you will.
I don't make Christian rap, but I am a Christian rapper.
People don't want rap to be anything other than it is. But genres expand. My contributions, no matter how they sound, will always be rap, because they'll always be black.
I love playing with makeup. Makeup has become a thing where it's an art form. It's not a thing where you use it because you need to feel beautiful or because you don't like the way you look.
But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
To seek out beauty in our work is to make a pilgrimage of our labors, to understand that the consummation of work lies not only in what we have done, but who we have become while accomplishing the task.
A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.
It's time for storytellers to tell the stories that have not had the privilege of being shown to the world, and the audience will be there.
You want a poem to unsettle something. There's a deep and interesting kind of troubling that poems do, which is to say, 'This is what you think you're certain of, and I'm going to show you how that's not enough. There's something more that might be even more rewarding if you're willing to let go of what you already know.'
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