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Big Sean Quotes

I feel like I’m able to relate to all races of people because when you learn to tap into the raw emotion of a person, that goes past color.

– Big Sean

I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school. I was the type to get good grades; I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there’s no school for rap.

– Big Sean

I never look at it like I’m wasting money when I’m buying gold.

– Big Sean

I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own.

– Big Sean

Sometimes I feel like putting on a blazer with just a T-shirt.

– Big Sean

Sometimes eight chains go together really well, depending on the length – how short they are, how small they are.

– Big Sean

I think a lot of my fans are anxious for more than just my singles. They know I’m a dreamer. They know I’m someone who is real spiritual. I love to have fun, and I always have fun songs – songs you can party to. But I also always have songs you can live to, that when you’re depressed, it may lift your spirits up.

– Big Sean

People don’t realize I’m a very spiritual person.

– Big Sean

My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man – Motor City.

– Big Sean

I grew up on the west side of Detroit – 6 mile and Wyoming – so I was really in the ‘hood. And I would go to school at Detroit Waldorf, and that was not the ‘hood. Growing up in Detroit was good. I had a good perspective, a well-rounded one, and not being one-sided.

– Big Sean

I feel I can really relate to a lot of young people.

– Big Sean

It was probably in third grade – I had a super-fake gold herringbone chain. Yeah man, it was, like, super fake. I don’t remember if it was my mom’s or how I got it, but ever since then, I’ve loved chains. The first real chain I got was from Kanye. It was a Jacob the Jeweler Kanye West Jesus piece.

– Big Sean

I feel like when you’re a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you’re a real person.

– Big Sean

It’s a real player move to take a girl wine-tasting on a date – she’ll like that.

– Big Sean

I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs – that’s what I am.

– Big Sean

Even though it’s tiring, I’m having the time of my life.

– Big Sean

There’s definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky.

– Big Sean

I wanted to make the soundtrack of people’s lives.

– Big Sean

I’m a Detroit player, they set styles.

– Big Sean

Yeah, I record on voice memos. I got like 1,000-something memos. If I’m in the middle of something and I can’t get it done, I’ll jot it down, but I never write a rap out, ever.

– Big Sean

When I’m home, I cook my own dinner, all organic.

– Big Sean

I’m really vulnerable onstage because it’s just me. I’m not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.

– Big Sean

I come from a family of scholars who got their Master’s degrees. To my grandma – and to a lot of people – an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.

– Big Sean

It just makes you a better artist when you’re with people who are great artists themselves. Being around Kanye, soaking up all the knowledge, all the stuff he got.

– Big Sean

I got this tiger head ring that’s similar to a Cartier ring. I had my jeweler Sean from Detroit make it similar to the Cartier ring, but gold and diamonded-out. That’s my Detroit tiger. It’s made with two different golds – the bottom is yellow and the top is gold.

– Big Sean

Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has made an impact on my life and made me who I am. Detroit has an unmistakable soul – nobody can duplicate the soul we bring to the game. From Motown to J Dilla to Eminem to anything.

– Big Sean

I definitely consider myself a Christian. There’s things that I believe in, there’s things I have a self-belief on. I know I got a great relationship with God and the universe. I just believe in being a righteous person and karma. Doing unto others as you would have done unto you. I really want to help teach that.

– Big Sean

For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.

– Big Sean

People who tend to listen to my music have come back and said, ‘Yo, this is my anthem. This is what I live by.’

– Big Sean

I feel like ‘Beware’ is a heartfelt song – it’s something that is definitely a story, something that I cultivated from personal stories, some from just other stories in just wanting to make a good song.

– Big Sean

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