1. “I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own.” – Big Sean
2. “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
3. “Fame necessarily isn’t really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it’s good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous.” – Big Sean
4. “Used to tell me the sky’s the limit, now the sky is our point of view.” – Big Sean
5. “You live and you learn, man. I’ve learned you can’t wait on anybody. You have to raise your awareness yourself.” – Big Sean
6. “I just always stay honest with myself. All my stuff isn’t boastful, but some of it is. But that’s just the music, the art.” – Big Sean
7. “I don’t call my people fans, I call them believers, because they go above and beyond.” – Big Sean
8. “A man that can master patience can master anything.” – Big Sean
9. “I feel like when you’re a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you’re a real person.” – Big Sean
10. “I’m not compromising myself in any way, I love just doing whatever I want and showing people it’s real.” – Big Sean
11. “The higher the goal, the harder the climb, but after that the bigger the muscle the, smarter the mind.” – Big Sean
12. “Look, think about it, close your eyes, dream about it. Tell your team about it, go make million dollar schemes about it.” – Big Sean
13. “Even though it’s tiring, I’m having the time of my life.” – Big Sean
14. “People don’t realize I’m a very spiritual person.” – Big Sean
15. “I know the higher that I go, the harder to climb. But after that, the bigger the muscle and smarter the mind.” – Big Sean
16. “Man the life of a workaholic… You either on ya work or just workin on it.” – Big Sean
17. “I just wanted to do something that had some meaning that I can look back and be proud of, that my family can look back and be proud of.” – Big Sean
18. “I guess it took ten years for me to be an overnight success.” – Big Sean
19. “I’d be a billionaire if I could get a dollar for all the bullsh*t that I hear a day.” – Big Sean
20. “Patience is the ability to accept trouble, suffering, delay without getting angry or upset, I feel like if you can master patience you can master anything.” – Big Sean
21. “My life’s a little luck – and a lot of grind.” – Big Sean
22. “Put a plan together and do what you want to do in life. You are going to get to a point in your life where your dreams are in your hands, where the next step is right in front of you and your next opportunity is on the other side of that door.” – Big Sean
23. “I wanted to make the soundtrack of people’s lives.” – Big Sean
24. “I’m just a Westside lover, I leave females in my sheets and all my feelings in a rubber.” – Big Sean
25. “I’m not that big, physically. I’m just big where it counts – I got a big heart!” – Big Sean
26. “Million dollar deals in my email, you mad as hell you ain’t CC’ed.” – Big Sean
27. “Seafood is one of my biggest pet peeves.” – Big Sean
28. “Definitely people like Kanye, inspired me to work hard. He’s somebody who I’ve seen put that grind in over the years.” – Big Sean
29. “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
30. “It’s evolution, man. Eventually the student becomes the teacher.” – Big Sean
31. “I work really hard – that doesn’t mean I deserve anything, but it’s really cool to see the positive reaction people give to something you worked so hard on. It’s one of the best feelings.” – Big Sean
32. “I got a dream that’s worth more than my reality.” – Big Sean
33. “I turn mistakes into lessons dead ends into exits in the journey of my life” – Big Sean
34. “It was just cool to see my friends so inspired, and I’m by no means the biggest rapper in the world, but I’m on my way up. I feel like I’m going to keep going and delivering good music every time. It was cool to show people that it’s real to do what you want to do.” – Big Sean
35. “Are you willing to give up what you love, for who you love?” – Big Sean
36. “There are so many people with great work ethics that I’ve been around. I try and take the best qualities from the people I admire and apply it to my own self.” – Big Sean
37. “Being in the Midwest, you get the best of all worlds and add your own flavor to it.” – Big Sean
38. “Girls only say I hate you to the guys that they love.” – Big Sean
39. “I feel like I changed hip-hop.” – Big Sean
40. “I feel like that’s why we’re here on this earth; to manifest what we want, to live a life, to have the best sex, drink the best champagne and to live it up and control it. That’s what it’s all about.” – Big Sean
41. “Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I’ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that’s the perfect name.” – Big Sean
42. “I get sick all the time because I get no rest and sleep, but it’s definitely worth it.” – Big Sean
43. “Success is on the way, I feel it in the distant.” – Big Sean
44. “My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too. My family, my friends, they keep me motivated. Just knowing my personal legend, just knowing what I’m supposed to do, that keeps me going.” – Big Sean
45. “Eminem was the biggest rapper in the world, but I didn’t know Eminem and I didn’t know anybody who knew Eminem.” – Big Sean
46. “Instead of thinking about work the next day or thinking about what you have to do, if you live in the moment you’ll have some of the best times of your life.” – Big Sean
47. “High ends, high spending. We just trying to end life on a high note.” – Big Sean
48. “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
49. “I never want to look back on life and say I wish I did something, and I don’t want anybody else to do that.” – Big Sean
50. “The best advice I have been given is to live in the moment, as cliché as that sounds. It’s crazy.” – Big Sean
51. “I’m just a Westside lover, I leave females in my sheets and all my feelings in a rubber.” – Big Sean
52. “I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs – that’s what I am.” – Big Sean
53. “I want to change the world. I want to be a part of culture. I want to help teach.” – Big Sean
54. “As a crew, G.O.O.D. Music is taking it to levels that really haven’t been done collectively. Kanye is someone who knows how to make classic albums, a true thinker. He got me in the mindset of being a true thinker and always planning out every move you got going.” – Big Sean
55. “Sometimes you have to let things go so there’s room for better things to come into your life.” – Big Sean
56. “Man I just ended up on everybody guestlist. I’m just doing better than what everybody projected.” – Big Sean
57. “I’m the type to have a bullet-proof condom and still gotta pull out.” – Big Sean
58. “When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music.” – Big Sean
59. “God made me in my beautiful form so I’m just trying to execute it.” – Big Sean
60. “Make sure you surround yourself with people who believe in you, who are like minded, the people who have a similar energy as you.” – Big Sean
61. “From the inside looking out you can never see how it looks from the outside looking in.” – Big Sean
62. “I ended up getting a lion chain. I had to make my own mascot – I want to start my own dynasty eventually.” – Big Sean
63. “When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don’t say that to brag, I just want to be an example.” – Big Sean
64. “Sometimes when you make good stuff and you love it, it gets outdated sometimes, because you’ve held on to it so long, you may not like it like you used to.” – Big Sean
65. “I want people to feel like they can do anything.” – Big Sean
66. “To live in the moment is truly an art and is truly a talent, because when you live in the moment then you are truly the master of your whole life and you’ll have the best times.” – Big Sean
67. “People don’t realize I’m a very spiritual person.” – Big Sean