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Andre Benjamin, known as Andre 3000, is an American rapper, actor, and music producer. Born on May 27, 1975, he is renowned for his unique musical style and heartfelt lyrics. Andre 3000 is a member of the iconic hip-hop duo Outkast, which achieved significant success in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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Famous Andre Benjamin Quotes

“Nothing lasts forever, so what makes love the exception.”

Lasts Forever Exception Making Love Nothing Lasts Forever

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“Sometimes nostalgia is a cage.”

Sometimes Nostalgia Cages

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“If models are made for modeling, thick girls are made for cuddling.”

Ifs Made Girl Models Thick Modeling Cuddling

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“SAD, BUT ONE DAY OUR KIDS WILL HAVE TO VISIT MUSEUMS TO SEE WHAT A LADY LOOKS LIKE.”

Looks Kids One Day Museums

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“To be honest, I don't necessarily think you have to be an actor to act. You don't have to be a musician to make great music. If it comes along and you put your all into it, the outcome is what's important.”

Ifs Thinking Important Actors Honest Musician Being Honest Outcomes What's Important Great Music

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“A lot of people think that you easily get roles because you do music. I mean, you could knock on the door faster than anybody, but it doesn't necessarily get you in.”

People Thinking Mean Roles Doors Faster

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“As a rapper, I don't freestyle. I used to freestyle when I used to get drunk, and it didn't matter.”

Matter Used Drunk Rapper Freestyle

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“I'm a thinker; I think too much. So for me to freestyle rap, it's like I'm thinking three, four time steps ahead, and I hate it.”

Thinking Hate Three Steps Too Much Four I Hate Rap Thinker Freestyle

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“I don't freestyle, but when I'm writing and thinking, sometimes things pop up - that's basically a freestyle.”

Thinking Writing Sometimes Pops Freestyle Writing And Thinking

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“Those people online are analyzing everything both of you do. Andre, every new song you're on gets scrutinized.”

People Song Online Analyzing New Songs

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“I don't mind opinions, because you like something or you don't like something, but to say things about your personal life? I'm like, "Man, let me quit reading this. 'Cause I'll stab everybody."”

Men Mind Reading Causes Opinion Let Me Quitting Personal Life Like Something

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“Sometimes your fans are way deeper than you are. They think you meant something like this big power-of-the-world thing that you said, but really you were just trying to find a word to rhyme with another word.”

Thinking World Way Trying Said Sometimes Bigs Fans Deeper Rhyme

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“People see you on screen and they like you, but they never really get a chance to meet you. When you're doing music, you know you have to go sit at in-stores, and you're actually in the street, so there's more of a hands-on kind of thing.”

People Knows Kind Hands Chance Streets Like You Stores Screens

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“As a rapper, your verses are like a window in to who you are.”

Window Who You Are Rapper Verses

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“With music, you can portray a certain thing, but in film, sometimes you have to let yourself go to a point where that can be attractive to a person, that you're willing to let yourself go that much. It works both ways.”

Way Persons Sometimes Film Certain Willing Attractive

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“Cool is not just one type of cool. Cool is confidence and knowing, i guess, what you are and being fine with it. Some people can be what people call “nerds” and they're cool because they know they're needs. They know what they are and they're so confident in knowing what they are that that makes them cool, and somebody aspires to be like them because they're fine with it. it's confidence, you know.”

People Knows Needs Knowing Fine Type Just One Aspire Nerd

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“It's funny, I don't even consider myself a rapper, I don't consider myself a designer, or even an actor. I just like creating stuff and trying to make good work, whatever it is. I don't care if it's designing toothbrushes. It's just making cool stuff to leave behind, that's all it is, it's nothing more.”

Ifs Trying Care Actors Stuff Behinds Design Creating Don't Care I Don't Care Designer Rapper Good Work Toothbrushes Cool Stuff

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“I just try things. And the things I like, sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't. You can look at pictures where I just look terrible. But the older I get, the more I know what works. It's for the better.”

Knows Trying Looks Sometimes Terrible Working It

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“The rap game has to save itself. Everybody's saving it. People like Lil Wayne is saving it. He's bringing energy to it.”

People Games Energy Rap Saving Wayne

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“I'm a vegan, but I like to look good, too.”

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“Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.”

Art Energy Hip Hop Albums Driven Hips Hops Cheques

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“The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk.”

World Needs Doe Certain Company Clothings Funk

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“Askin what happened to the feelin that her and me had, I pray so much about it, need some knee pads.”

Needs Happened Praying Rap Knees I Pray Pads

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“They can bite, but cannot be us, They can come and pick up little slang but cannot see us, You ought to be ashamed trying to fit in my adidas, So Run like DMC like you don't know you got no heater”

Knows Trying Littles Running Like You Ought Fit Picks Rap Ashamed Bites Slang Adidas Trying To Fit In

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“Now, my oral illustration be like clitoral stimulation to the female gender Ain't nothin' better Let me know when it's wet enough to enter”

Knows Enough Female Let Me Hip Hop Gender Wet Illustration Stimulation

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“Everyone has an addiction, mine happens to be you.”

Happens Mines Addiction Hip Hop Be You

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“I said, 'What you wanna be?' She said, 'Alive.' It made me think for a minute, then looked in her eyes ...I coulda died.”

Thinking Made Said Eye Alive Minutes Died Hip Hop Rap Her Eyes

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“I met a gypsy and she hipped me to some life game, To stimulate, then activate the left and right brain. Said, 'Baby boy, you only funky as your last cut. You focus on the past, your ass'll be a has-what.' That's one to live by, or either that's one to die to.”

Said Lasts Past Dies Games Left Brain Boys Focus Cutting Baby Mets Hip Hop Rap Ass Live By Gypsy Activate Funky Baby Boy Left And Right

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“You download it for free, we get charged back for it. I know you're saying, "They won't know, they won't miss it, Besides, I ain't a thief, they won't pay me a visit." So, if I come to your job, take your corn on the cob, And take a couple kernels off it, that would be alright with you?”

Ifs Knows Would Be Jobs Pay Missing Couple Hip Hop Rap Thieves Corn Alright Downloads Kernel Corn On The Cob

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“I live by the beat like you live check to check. If you don't move your feet then I don't eat, So we like neck to neck.”

Ifs Moving Feet Like You Beats Hip Hop Rap Checks Necks Live By

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“I bet you never heard of a playa with no game, Told the truth to get what I want, but shot it with no shame. Take this music dead serious while others entertain. I see they makin' they paper so I guess I can't complain...or can I? I feel they disrespectin' the whole thang. Them hooks like sellin' dope to black folks, And I choke when the food they serve ain't tastin' right, My stomach can't digest it even when I bless it.”

Want Feels I Can Whole Games Black Heard Serious Paper Shots Shame Folks Hip Hop Rap Complaining Bless Stomach Hook Choke Dope Playas

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“Everybody's got opinions on the way you're livin', But see, they can't fill your shoes.”

Way Opinion Shoes Hip Hop Rap

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“Your white tee, well to me, looks like a nightgown; Make your mama proud, take that thing two sizes down.”

Wells Looks Two White Proud Size Hip Hop Rap Mama Tees

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“Look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry themselves, how can you? You can wear some of the weirdest things and be cool. If you believe in it, that's what makes it cool.”

Ifs Way Believe Looks Guy Laughing If You Believe Scottish Being Cool Kilts

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“But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.”

Ifs Way Kind Art Made One Thing Lovers Sticks All Kinds

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“I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I'm just leaving them.”

Done Young Regret Six Leaving Silly Scar Tattoo Surgery Lasers

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“I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.”

Drink Creating Vices Smoke

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“I think it's real important to show style now. The majority of style right now is to act like you don't have style at all, so most companies are getting rich off clothes that look torn, clothes that look worn.”

Thinking Looks Important Real Shows Company Rich Style Like You Right Now Clothes Majority Worn Torn Get Rich

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“I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.”

Thinking Ends Kids Film Father Teach Effects Taught Hollywood Dresses Magazines African American Grants Cowboy Hollywood Films Old Hollywood

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“If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.”

Ifs Looks Football Jersey Sleeves Tailored

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“It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.”

Balance Harder Artistic

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“I'm a fan of making things that I've seen but couldn't purchase, or things I bought that didn't fit the way I like.”

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“I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.”

Art Powerful I've Learned Most Powerful

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“What's cooler than bein' cool?”

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“Nothing's more attractive than a heavy praying woman.”

Praying Heavy Attractive

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“Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.”

Travel Australia Far Away Australia Day

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“When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it.”

Looks Film Watches Havens Scene Shooting

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“You look in the mirror everyday and you see the same thing. As an entertainer, you wanna see something new.”

Looks Mirrors Everyday Something New Entertainers

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“When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again.”

Looks Littles Character Sound My Own Records Changed Clothes Mirrors Sophisticated Wilder Outkast

Author:Andre Benjamin

About the Author

Born: May 27, 1975
Known for: Rapper
Quotes: 49

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