Travis Scott Quotes

Money is something that keeps you alive and healthy and just keeps you focused.

It's the drive. It's the passion.

One day, Travi$ is going to be moving like The Beatles.

I don't write; I just go in the booth.

I was on mad platinum albums... I produced and wrote on them.

I don't need a stage to perform. We just need something to stand on.

'Days Before Rodeo' is just the journey of me finding out who I am.

I want first and foremost to help other artists, launch new names, to provide opportunities. I want to do for them what happened to me, but better.

I never produce a song, whether writing it or making a beat, and give it a wack visual or wack performance. I'm like a trifecta.

You can't buy swag.

I've got a song with Roscoe Dash - that's next level, man.

I like how fashion is becoming more like music.

It's more adaptive to young kids. It's more adaptive to a more on-the-go lifestyle. More street vibe. But I've always been into it.

I see hip-hop as going in a self-managing place.

It's very culturally controlled and artist-controlled. It's not really based on a label anymore. Everything is pretty much in the control of the artist. Which is amazing.

Sometimes I might be sleepy, and sometimes I've literally been sleeping backstage, woken up, gone straight on stage or gone crazy. It's not like I psyche myself; I don't do any of that.

Raging and having good feelings and having fun is something I plan on doing and spreading across the world. I just need air and a mic.

Fans be reflecting the way I be making music.

I don't know if he remembers, but the first time I ever met Cudi was the first time I met Kanye. I've never told anyone this, but it was the same day. That was the first time I was around G.O.O.D. Music at all. I was sitting like, 'Man, I'm in the presence of 'Ye and Cudi. This is the art level where I want to be.'

I have this old Polo jacket. I've got to bring it wherever I go. And I have this one cape that somebody gave to me. It's this jumpsuit with this cape on the back that this one person gave to me. It's clutch.

I'm not into just one thing; I always felt like I had to have my hand in everything revolving around what I do, whether it's directing videos, making beats, making music, performing.

James Blake is a real good friend of mine.

He's real different than what you thinks. He's super turned up.

I'm always up for collaborating with brands and people who actually design, but doing your own line is a whole other beast. I don't think I could deal with the criticism.

I have devoted myself to the Rockets.

You can't buy vision, and you can't buy aesthetic.

I feel like everything needs to be stylised; that's always been my mindset.

I feel like Houston is one of the leading things in music culture.

Everyone loves the Houston culture. It needs to have its own monument, its own moment for artists like me, artists like Beyonce who set it off.

I'm not a gangsta.

I think of Westernized culture as a good visual for my music.

I don't really write. I'm an on-the-spot type of person. This beat, let's listen to it; let's vibe. And then I'll do a melody, and then we'll go back and do it.

You grow up in a small community, there's no outlet like New York or L.A.

You've gotta really touch people to move them to buy your records.

There's a lot of us out here that are birds, man. We all need to just fly.

My mom used to work for Coach and Louis Vuitton, in retail.

So, I've always been around it. I've always had that connection. Always.

I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.

Everybody just has different steps in their life that they take to do what they should.

I was a smart kid. I went to private school in middle school and got kicked out.

Yes, money is important. But it's all about the creative process.

Me being in Houston, I wanted to leave there because it was only known for one thing. That's why I hit N.Y.; that's why I hit L.A. That's why I hit Paris, London. I just picked up basically everything, but I morphed it into what Travi$ Scott is and into what I know is fresh.

I'm an artist. I produce, I direct, and all of that goes into the music.

I'm attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.

There are people who take fashion at different levels, but personally, I'm just a kid with it.

Kanye is the leading eagle: he's like the president who stands up for kids like us who have ideas.

With albums like 'Rodeo,' 'Days Before Rodeo' and 'Owl Pharaoh,' I was really tuned into wanting to get people to understand my conscious and who I was mentally and who I am mentally.

My whole story is straight mythical. It's tangible, but it's also what life could be.

I was born in Houston, Texas. I grew up in Houston, by Missouri City. It's, like, a suburb in the area; it's middle-class. But I used to stay with my grandma in the hood from ages one to six.

I feel like 'Birds in the Trap' seem united;

it's just metaphor for ones in their box that are stuck and can't get their creative idea out.

Honestly, I really can't speak on others, but in a sense, I feel like every artist always has their problems with the industry because we all want to have our creative way.

My music isn't rappity-rap-rap-rap.

Cudi should be a top tier artist... I think he fathered a lot of the style of music. He's a good influence and a good help.

My A&R at Epic got fired the first week I got signed.

You've gotta motivate kids. They wanna grow up. They got problems. You've gotta give 'em that music to make 'em feel like they're OK, and it's only a couple of artists that do that.

I was in early on with 'Yeezus.'