Top 75 Future Quotes

At first, Hendrix went and became a superstar in London, but if he walked past the Apollo in Harlem, no one would know who he was. I’m the hip-hop version of him.

I just enjoy dressing up and getting all the new sneakers and all the hot exclusive clothes – I did even when I was young.

For me, it’s always been one of my pet peeves to keep people engaged and talking, and just always being interested in what I have going on. To keep the level of creativity always turned up to the max.

I want people to say, ‘He evolved throughout his whole career.’ I wanna be able to have the most number one records ever. The most Top 10 records ever.

If you behind me, I’m not going to look back and try and figure out what you’re doing behind me.

You got one life to live. So I’m living it the way I want to live it.

My kids need to be around me. And the times that I’m out of town, if I’m not too busy, they can come to me.

At times, I think, ‘What would I rather be doing than music?’ That’s what you have to ask yourself, if you feel like you need to be somewhere else… But there’s nothing else I want to do more than music. That’s why I stay in the booth.

I feel a responsibility for telling the truth.

Don’t ask for a million dollars. Ask for the stuff that’ll get you a million dollars – your health, your brain, your sanity, wisdom. Prepare me for when I do get that million. Make sure I don’t go crazy, make sure I help my family.

It takes an astronaut so long to get to space – that’s how long it takes to catch up on my music.

I’m always a fan of good business moves.

Don’t matter if you’re rich, poor or whatever, you just want to be able to have your own experiences in life and listen and learn from other people.

I just want to be an inspiration. I’m a rock star, I’m Future Hendrix.

I feel like guys, girls, whatever it is, you just come out hoping to make the best record. You just try to have a conversation and just create what you’ve talked about. Whatever you find to fit the beat at the time, what the person is down for, wherever the beat takes you towards.

Where I know I wanna go is being consistent on business, and that’s just making another artist, my clothing line – capitalizing off the moment. I wanna be consistently doing that – capitalizing off every move I make.

I don’t read blogs. I’m living the life they’re writing about. So why read about it?

In Atlanta, there’s no limitation to where you can take your music. You can be as creative as you want to be.

I want to have bosses around me, ’cause at the end of the day, 10 years from now, 20 years from now, you want to make relationships to keep ’em, you know what I’m saying. So I make my relationships to keep ’em – all my relationships – not try to burn bridges that you may need to cross over one day.

I do everything for my family.

You want to create your own path, no matter what situation you’re in.

I want to be the most melodic artist. ‘His music ability, the way he write, his creativity is undeniable.’ I want people to say that about me.

I feel like I’m doing something in Atlanta that nobody ever did as far as rap. If it happens to end up on the top 40 or the pop charts, it doesn’t mean I meant to go pop. It’s just where the music took me. It started at the bottom, and it rises.

You don’t question magic.

I don’t just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift, and I’m making the most of my opportunity.

I want to give the music attention and be in the studio. I want to give all my attention to my music, my kids, my family, so I just wanna focus on certain things besides social media.

I have to go places beyond music.

I like all types of women. I accept them as they are when they come into my life… But I’m not a romantic. I’m just up-front. I like to be a part of something real, not make-believe. I tell women to tell me the truth, to just lay it out. Let me be the judge and decide if I want you around or not. Let me have my choice.

Rumours are rumours. The Internet is going to report whatever they have to speculate on.

I’m putting everything on the line in being able to express myself in a different way than rappers normally do. They might say, ‘It’s rap’ or ‘It’s R&B,’ but I’m stepping outside the box and making music for me and making music for the fans to understand me. I’m going the extra distance to be able to come across different.

It’s hard to get burned out or uninspired, man.

The weirdest place I ever actually woke up in was a villa on the beach in Mexico. It was burning hot, and there were all these crabs walking around me. But I was feeling good, so I went with the vibe.

My sister wants a Rollie. When I buy one now, I gotta buy like five, ten. It’s crazy.

The music I make, I’m different.

I want my money to be different. I’m not trying to have rapper money. My goal is to be able to get everything from the world that I can get.

At the end of the day, I’m out of here – above anything.

I feel like guitar explains a lot. You can just listen to a guitar without any lyrics over it; you can just feel what kind of track it is. If it’s pain… you can feel it. It sets the mood.

Everybody wanna be a super dad and the best dad ever, but sometimes, I’m just realizing that I’m not perfect.

You got to make the most of your second life. I was born Nayvadius, but now I’m Future. Should I dwell on what Nayvadius was supposed to be? I get a chance to experience life as something else. I wasn’t supposed to be like this.

I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music – hip-hop, and just music, period. ‘Cause I come from hip-hop, that’s my background, but I’m not gonna let that limit me from where I can go.

I’m an entrepreneur. This is my life. This my career. This the way I eat.

When you’re riding with your mom, and you’re a kid, you’d listen to ‘Dear Mama‘ and the radio friendly records. I used to sneak and listen to Too $hort.

You make music to change the radio, not make music for the radio.

I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I’m saying?

I want to keep doing what I’m doing and see how far I can go. See when it stops. See what the end is like. I want to make this moment last as long as I can make it. If I miss a day, I’m afraid I’ll miss out on a smash record.

I’ve always been into fashion since I was a kid. I love fashion. I appreciate it.

I’ve always been into fashion since I was a kid. I love fashion. I appreciate it. I just enjoy dressing up and getting all the new sneakers and all the hot exclusive clothes – I did even when I was young.

I’m not for the publicity stunts. Leave my son out of the publicity stunts.

You know that I can make hits. You know I can do all these rap records.

I’m just really a free spirit. You gotta be like that. ‘Cause life ain’t that complicated. It’s only that complicated when you make it that way. I just wanna wake up and move with the way it goes. If it’s meant to happen, it will happen.

My favorite designer has to be Louis Vuitton.

I’m most comfortable when I’m in the studio and music playing.

I love ‘Troy.’ I love Brad Pitt’s character – when he went to Troy, he just ran over it. Then this particular scene where they made this big old horse or something out of wood, and they hid inside the wood.

I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life. I wouldn’t say musically, though.

I gotta have my long trench coats, a nice scarf for the winter time when you’re walking around, and some nice fitted jeans to go with the trench coats.

It’s about being creative and drawing on who you are when you wake up, and expressing yourself through fashion.

Rihanna takes risks, and I love a woman who takes risks. It just goes to show you have your own mind and your own way of thinking.

I try to look cool. I strategize. Sometimes it’s like – that’s part of the strategizing, to make it seem like I don’t think about it.

When you grow up in something, you don’t even know if it’s bad or good. You just know that’s how it is.

Just understand that the type of music that I make is something special.

My kids gotta understand: they gotta make a sacrifice, having a superstar dad.

That’s the time that I enjoy: away from the cameras, away from the audience, the scenery of going out to eat and everybody‘s staring at me.

All I know is record, record, record, record.

I want to let little kids know that no matter what situation they come up in, that they’re not exempt from success. All I ever wanted was for people to believe in me and just recognize my potential. I came, I struggled, I made it, I conquered.

My three wishes are just be respected out the game. I want respect from everybody. And just make a successful clothing line and company. I’m not going to put a number on it. Just to have a great career.

People think fashion shows take hours – it’s 15 minutes. You walk in, do red carpet, take the pictures, you sit down… and then it’s over.

When I’m in the studio, I stay in the studio, like, sometimes 20 hours out the day.

I want to judge the nannies that’s around my child. I don’t want to pay for a nanny that I never met, that I never got a chance to interview. That’s not the life I want for my child. I want to be involved 100 percent in all decisions made. This my flesh and blood.

I’m always most comfortable in the studio. It’s my comfort zone. I love being there, and I love making records.

Big Rube was on my first album and some of my mixtapes. His words are so powerful. I want to speak every word he says into existence. I wanna be a part of that! I wanna be a part of greatness. His wordplay is great to me.

My day one fans – my fans from my mix tape days – know my life now. They know where I’ve been. You don’t want to have a disconnection with those fans. You have to give them all of you because they feel like they’ve known you.

I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music – no matter if it’s hip-hop, pop, R&B or whether it’s rock n’ roll or country. It could be a Garth Brooks song, and if it’s a smash, then I’ll love the different wordplay and different melodies. That’s what I’m a fan of – great music.

You gotta catch the sauce. Move with me… I’m dripping sauce.

I ain’t giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain’t got nothing else to say for you.

My style is a part of my music. You can’t be an artist and not put any thought or effort into the way you appear.