Kevin Gates Quotes

Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted A vision without action is merely a dream Action, it's the grind, it's the hustle, it's the persistence

Whatever an individual chooses to do with themselves, long as it doesn't affect me and they're respectful with it, I don't care what they do. Because I'm not perfect and I have flaws, so who would I be to be judgmental?

Wise men change, fools stay the same.

Everybody round you pretendin that they your partner, let you have a problem they won't even help you out

Why accept failure when success is free?

I've had good times and I've had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I'm in because it could steer me into a depressed state.

Emotionally I'm an introvert but it come off as aggression

Never break or fold, that's what it takes to be major.

Loves a battlefield it's not a one night stand.

The ones that hate you most tend to be the people you know

If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you're destined for failure.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

Say what you doin and not what you finna do

I suffer from depression. Severe cases of it. Not one case of depression, not a severe case, but severe cases of depression. Music is my only outlet, it's therapeutic to me. It's a release. It's how I vent emotionally.

I don't have a religion. I ain't nothing wrong with church as long as they selling chicken. Cause I read the Quran, I read the Kabalah, I read the Bible. They all got the same three basic principles: Love God, love your neighbor as yourself, and...As far as me being, I live by those principles.

It is illegal to steal my feelings and leave

The energy in the daytime is so different because everyone is so unhappy and depressed and you can pick up on that energy psychokinetically. So I like to come out at night. Everything's settled, you can see more.

Out my window.. I see everything I dream about and wished I had

My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.

I've always stood on my own two. I don't need a team. I don't do the entourage thing, 30 people. I don't do that. That's just not me.

Some may consider this a problem, I easily fall in love

When you come up in the slums, having nothin make you humble

Knowledge is provided but only to those who need to know

I'm inspired by everything that goes on around me. I'm a sponge. I'm very analytical. I notice the things that most people don't notice.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can't have one with out the other. They coincide.

I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem. Anybody that has extreme highs and extreme lows is bipolar to any psychologist and that's not necessarily the truth.

I love God, I love everybody else around me as myself, and I love my enemy.

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt

Pray to god someone prays for me

I don't gang bang but I'll bang tha thang!

To be honest I am not lookin to be romantic, already got someone at home

I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand.

Everytime the leaves are changing it's the loneliest time of the year

I'm a big skeptic so I won't just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I'ma get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies.

Fall in love fast, make sure I handle it delicate

Seem like codeine is the one thing that help take my mind from the lies

Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions.

I love to be clean. I wear the same things, all of my clothes pretty much look the same. I'm a plain and simple type of guy. I don't really do a lotta busy colors and things of that nature. I feel like less is more.

Can you keep up with the lingo

You have to be intimate with a person to know that person.

I write a lot of my best music in the car, like late night. Three, four in the morning. I'm in the passenger seat, I got my driver, my getaway driver. My Bonnie, I'm Clyde. That's when everything is just settled. In the daytime it's chaotic. Everybody just goin' nowhere fast. In a rush to go nowhere.

The Notebook ... that’s my favorite one. I’ve read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love.

Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity?

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

I vent through my music. That's the only outlet I have.

I did a lot of drugs. I didn't do multiple drugs, but I overindulged in whatever drug of choice.

Don't respect a lot of rappers, feel I had a harder life

Any artist that's as serious about making music as I am, I'm cool with that. But if you tellin' me, "Man, send me a verse and I'ma send you a verse." No. That's not collaborating. We don't know each other and I'm serous about this music.

I've just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance of being able to write and being able to read.