"There's a machine that I have nothing..." - Quote by Tupac Shakur
There's a machine that I have nothing to do with. It's called the "Tupac Machine."
More by Tupac Shakur
“My aim is to spread more smiles than tears.”
“That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.”
“Gangsta Rap is dead. I've moved on. And the raps that I'm rappin to my community shouldn't be filled with rage? They shouldn't be filled with same attrocities that they gave me? The media they don't talk about it, so in my raps I have to talk about it, and it seems foreign because there's no one else talking about it.”
More on Fame
“I realize that some people see going away as, "Oh, he's irrelevant now," but I feel like if I don't go away, I get sick of myself. It's never been my thing to be in the spotlight all the time.”
“I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.”
“I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman; I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.”
More on Perception
“How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!”
“You cannot conceive the many without the one...The study of the unit is among those that lead the mind on and turn it to the vision of reality.”
“I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you.”