Top 80 Future Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Even if it comes off natural, everyone has a fashion sense.

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

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.

You have to just do music, and you’re becoming this entertainer, and so many people require so much of your time for different things, different obligations you have to make money, or just different obligations you have as a person in whatever the situation may be.

My daddy didn’t even sign my birth certificate. So I ain’t never had his last name.

I feel a responsibility for telling the truth.

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.

Jupiter, Pluto, pick a planet: we can go there. I just got a bit more work to do in the music industry, and we’re going to space, baby.

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

When I first used Auto-Tune, I never used it to sing. I wasn’t using it the way T-Pain was. I used it to rap because it makes my voice sound grittier.

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

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.

It takes compromise to raise a child, especially with a schedule like mine.

That’s that Dungeon Family ethos: being able to reinvent yourself, stand out and stand alone. Having your own character and having your own image, no matter what they say about you. I want to show my versatility and how diverse I am, how I approach the track, my rhythm, my melodies. It’s something different.

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.

My career choice is my career choice. Just stepping out of that zone, to be able to be a provider. I understand my position as a provider and my role as a dad also… Just being able to be comfortable with it.

I’m not just a hip-hop artist; I feel like I’m a rock star.

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 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.

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.

Every day, I bring out something new. You got to be prepared – you got to have a few outfits laying out for when you wake up, in case you want to change, to set the mood.

I feel like I just wanna go back to being more underground.

Man, I love being a dad. It’s super fun.

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

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

I don’t take anything for granted. I know there are a million and one dudes who are rapping, wishing they were in my shoes.

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.

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 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 don’t even talk about being locked up in any of my songs.

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.

You get inspiration from craziest places. It’s just about being creative. You gotta step outside that box, you know what I’m saying, to reach the people. You never know who can feel it; who it can connect to.

My music is like a diary. I use every experience.

I’m the top rapper in the world.

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

It don’t matter who I’m working with. I just feel like I want to make the best record possible.

The melodies I come up with, they’re not normal.

You don’t question magic.

The most fun moments are being on the stage and seeing how the crowd reacts to your music. The energy of the crowd that makes you just want to go in and keep doing it and be a part of this forever.

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.

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.

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.

All gigs are good gigs. There’s never a bad one. Everything have a reason behind it; you just got to find that reason.

I’ll always keep you guessing. I’m living up to the name. It’s powerful. That’s just what I do.

The hardest part of fame and success is adapting to the people around you that’s changing. It changes the way people look at you from how they used to look at you. They listen to you on the radio, they look at you on TV and when people speak on you in a good light, you have a couple people who hold grudges.

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

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 like to express myself through the clothes that I wear.

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.

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

The music I make, I’m different.

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’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.

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.

I wanna be one of those special guys. Jimi Hendrix wasn’t afraid of who he was. That’s the part I emulate.

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

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.

I’m always a fan of good business moves.

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

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

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

My obsession with outer space is my way of being different. I make astronaut music. It takes an astronaut so long to get to space – that’s how long it takes to catch up on my music.

If you’re doing what you think people might like, rather than doing what you like, people will see through it.

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

My favorite rappers are, I can’t really say. I like Kanye because he’s so creative. He’ll just do anything. I like what Kanye’s bringing to the game. Lil Wayne. I like Wayne.

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.

Jay Z wasn’t great when 2pac and Biggie was alive.

Future’s not everybody. The people who are taking my style are like my babies. I’ve got a tribe of kids that want to be like me… But I understand why people want to imitate the things I do. They’re dope. It comes naturally to me. My fans can expect greatness. If I wasn’t me, I would want to be me.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

Jimi Hendrix, he was a rock star. But he played guitar; I don’t. I’ve just found ways to use words to make my mark in this history book.