Gerald Earl Gillum, better known by his stage name G-Eazy, is an American musician from Oakland, California. He is best known for his album These Things Happen.
He released his debut studio album “These Things Happen” on June 23, 2014, and features the artists Lil Wayne and Roddy Ricch. The album peaked at No. 3 on the US Billboard 200 in November 2014 and was certified Gold in December 2016 by the RIAA.
In July 2015, he released his second studio album, “When It’s Dark Out”. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, becoming G-Eazy’s first US number one record; it reached number six in Canada and attained a Silver certification from British Recorded Music Industry (BPI). He has seen commercial success.
Here are some of G-Eazy’s inspirational quotes that will help you with your entrepreneurial journey
Top 83 Most famous G-Eazy Quotes On Everything
“I think it’s important to evolve and grow and take risks creatively, instead of repeating yourself and doing the same thing over and over.”
“When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That’s something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.”
“Never give up and never conform.”
“In my opinion, creative control means a lot, I feel like I’m really in touch with who my fans are and what they like about my music, and I’m able to communicate directly with them.”
“You have to be dope; you have to find an audience and reach that audience with your identity and your message.”
“I think when you’re telling a story from inside of you that’s genuine, people connect with it.”
“I think if you’re constantly reinvesting into your content and giving the fans stuff, then you can continue to tour. You can continue to sell the merch and monetize the popularity of the brand.”
“I does what I wish to. If you’re mad, well too bad. Sounds like a personal issue.”
“Success is just being able to do what I love for a living, spend all my time doing it, connect with fans, and continue that for a long f – king time.”
“I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.”
“I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.”
“I’ve put myself in this position where I haven’t set myself up with a Plan B. I don’t have a safety net; it’s all in.”
“Nothing tops making a living off your passion.”
“I think every artist’s next work will reflect a new chapter in their autobiography. Each album tells a story about where they were at during a particular period and how they have evolved.”
“Lost in this young world, I’m just trying to navigate See the pie sliced, I’m just trying to grab a plate.”
“When you’re choosing the track list and the sequencing, it’s important to make sure that there’s some strong concepts on there and that it matters and it says something… that it sticks with people.”
“If you’re not out living, then you’ve got nothing to talk about.”
“I’ve matured as a person and so has the music…It’s gotten more sophisticated and interesting I think.”
“New money is something fun to celebrate if you never had it.”
“When you’re around somebody like E-40, all you can do is watch and learn, and soak up game.”
“Success is just being able to do what I love for a living, spend all my time doing it, connect with fans, and continue that for a long f**king time.”
“I think the most important thing is to be yourself and be genuine and don’t try to tell anybody else’s story but your own. And if it comes from a genuine place, I think people can tell, and if it doesn’t, I think people can tell, and I think that eventually it shows.”
“I was 14 years old when I started rapping and I was terrible. I fell in love with it though and when that happens with me I become super passionate and go all the way with it.”
“I suppose sometimes the lack of privacy can be a little hard to deal with at times.”
“When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn’t like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.”
“In anything I do I try to stay true to myself because I think that’s what matters most, and then the challenge is getting all these different sides of my personality to fit together in one box. It isn’t an easy task. But that’s basically what the end result represents.”
“I dunno, there were always people believing in me, but you just gotta be confident in whatever you wanna do.”
“My whole career has been from scratch, so I never took it for granted that people care and support what I do.”
“I think it’s natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I’m in the studio and I write something, I think it’s the greatest thing in the world; it’s like my baby. I just made something out of thin air that exists now in a tangible form. It’s the biggest thrill in my life.”
“The biggest thing for me is the new music. I’m playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring.”
“Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.”
“What inspires me is the desire to be on. The desire to be successful. The desire to reach people through my music and make a living off it and never have to do anything else. Being able to do music full time and travel the world and share this music with everybody. That’s the dream.”
“Life is good. I’ve got a apartment that is paid for with rap money. It’s good. It’s amazing. It’s a blessing. I wake up every day and appreciate how much of a blessing this is getting to do this. But it is important to always stay humble, grounded, focused, and maintain that same ambition you had when you had nothing.”
“Whenever I perform I try to connect with the crowd and give off energy so when they walk away from the show its remarkable and its something they talk about it, like ‘damn I cant wait to come back to my show.”
“It’s important to push yourself to get better at your craft – whatever that is. It’s important to grow and evolve with each project.”
“I don’t know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff.”
“Sometimes you wake up the next morning after making a lot of bad decisions and have this nonchalant reaction like, ‘These Things Happen’ – what can I say?”
“I wanted to make an album that plays from the top to bottom and feels together and complete. That’s just something that felt important.”
“I think my style revolves around the philosophy that less is more, that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. That goes for my taste in design and in clothes, and even affects the way I approach music. I’m all about keeping things simple, and minimal, but being able to convey something powerful through that approach.”
“I’ll be a Bay kid for the rest of my life. That’s in my veins; that’s in my bones.”
“I had a job since I was old enough to work – since I was, like, 14.”
“If you get comfortable, that’s how you fall off.”
“Rapping was something I always wanted to do, so after school, my friends and I would catch the bus to my house and just sit there writing songs, every day.”
“I’ve matured as a person and so has the music… It’s gotten more sophisticated and interesting I think.”
“A great song can come from anybody. A great performance can come from anybody. It doesn’t matter who you are, and that’s truly what I believe.”
“Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I’m on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can’t tell if I’ve worn the same shirt twice.”
“If you push yourself to stay hungry, you’re always working towards at least taking steps forward. If you’re taking steps forward, then you’re making progress.”
“Music isn’t selling like it used to, but the one thing you can’t steal or download is a live show experience or a t-shirt.”
“I’ve dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I’ve been into doing music. It’s what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.”
“Life is good. I’ve got an apartment that is paid for with rap money. It’s good. It’s amazing. It’s a blessing. I wake up every day and appreciate how much of a blessing this is getting to do this. But it is important to always stay humble, grounded, focused, and maintain that same ambition you had when you had nothing.”
“I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.”
“I listen to a wide array of music, all depends on the mood I’m in at the time.”
“You have an entire generation of kids who grew up with the idea that music is something that you can download for free.”
“Anybody can have a great album in themselves but it’s not until you bring it out and put it into tangible form and creating it and working on it in the studio that all of that comes to life you know what I mean?”
“What inspires me is the desire to be on. The desire to be successful. The desire to reach people through my music and make a living off it and never have to do anything else. Being able to do music full time and travel the world and share this music with everybody. That’s the dream.”
“I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.”
“That’s the nature of this business. Something that took ten years to make can crumble in an instant. It could be snatched away from you at any moment.”
“Less is more. Simplicity is awesome. That’s all you need in life. Its just my personal philosophy.”
“In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I’d chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.”
“I’ve got some growing up to do.”
“A song or an album is never really done. You can work on it forever, but knowing when to call it a day and knowing when to walk away from it is extremely important.”
“You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.”
“Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don’t just vote. Know what you’re voting for and stand by that.”
“Less is more. Simplicity is awesome. That’s all you need in life. It’s just my personal philosophy.”
“If I didn’t make a single song in two months, I’m slippin’. You can’t just party every night.”
“I used to go and cop stacks of blanks CDs and sit there and burn copies of my mixtapes and print up my own mixtape covers and post up in downtown Oakland and Telegraph in Berkeley and literally was selling my mixtapes for five bucks, hand-to-hand.”
“Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.”
“I would never consider myself a role model in the wide sense of the word.”
“I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I’ve been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.”
“I wear what I like to wear, I don’t pick out clothes to try to fit in or whatever, I just like what I like.”
“Music isn’t selling like it used to, but the one thing you can’t steal or download is a live show experience or a T-shirt.”
“My mom would always play me a lot of late-’50s, late-’60s rock.”
“I think the special stuff [music] still finds a way to be heard, as long as you pair it with a good release strategy.”
“It’s one thing to turn up and jump around stage and give people a good time – that’s obviously a big part of this – but I’ll always get deeper than that as an artist.”
“The gatekeepers don’t control the gates, and the powers that be aren’t as powerful.”
“I didn’t grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I’ve never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.”
“I’d have to say the best part of being successful is being able to take care of my mom so she never has to worry about anything again and also being able to put my friends and people I care about in positions to win.”
“I love the road. The closest thing to home, for me, is being on a tour bus, ironically.”
“Sometimes when you meet stars, on one hand you’re like, “You’re who I’m inspired by, you’re who I look up to.” On the other hand you’re like, “I wanna be in the same kind of shoes that you’re in.” That’s how I’ve always seen myself. Some of me is star-struck, some of me feels like I’m looking at a peer. They’re another person who sees the world the same way I do, who already did it. It’s inspiring.”
“I just want to make music that matters, that people will remember for a long time.”
“I’ve gone on in front of a crowd of 10 people and 7,000 people.”
“I think when people get comfortable is when they fall off.”
