Kevin Gates Quotes to Enhance Your Life

Most famous Kevin Gates quotes will definitely light up your day and ignite your passion with the insights about life, struggle, and success.

Kevin Gates, a multi-platinum rap artist who has gained fame and success for his thought-provoking lyrics and sometimes controversial quotes. From his honest confessions to his clever wordplay, he provides a unique perspective on life that resonates with a variety of audiences.

If you’re looking for witty one-liners to get you motivated and push you forward, inspirational Kevin Gates quotes carry a spark of wisdom, igniting a path towards self-discovery and personal growth. From his thoughts on power and success to his cutting words on relationships and life, get ready to explore some of the most thought-provoking and motivating quotes.

Best Kevin Gates Quotes

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind. Kevin Gates

It is illegal to steal my feelings and leave. Kevin Gates

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief. Kevin Gates

I’m inspired by everything that goes on around me. I’m a sponge. I’m very analytical. I notice the things that most people don’t notice. Kevin Gates

I don’t really like talking. I like to execute. I’m not a talking person. I’m an action person. Kevin Gates

My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle. Kevin Gates

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered. Kevin Gates

Whatever an individual chooses to do with themselves, long as it doesn’t affect me and they’re respectful with it, I don’t care what they do. Because I’m not perfect and I have flaws, so who would I be to be judgmental? Kevin Gates

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations. Kevin Gates

Wise men change, fools stay the same. Kevin Gates

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I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem. Kevin Gates

Why accept failure when success is free? Kevin Gates

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner. Kevin Gates

I’ve had good times and I’ve had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I’m in because it could steer me into a depressed state. Kevin Gates

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this. Kevin Gates

Everybody around you pretending that they your partner, let you have a problem they won’t even help you out. Kevin Gates

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface. Kevin Gates

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Emotionally I’m an introvert but it comes off as aggression. Kevin Gates

I look at other people’s lives, and some people feel like they’re too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn’t have. So I still get them. Kevin Gates

Never break or fold, that’s what it takes to be major. Kevin Gates

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws. Kevin Gates

Loves a battlefield it’s not a one night stand. Kevin Gates

I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose. I know what my job is. And I always ran from it. Kevin Gates

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The ones that hate you most tend to be the people you know. Kevin Gates

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world. Kevin Gates

If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you’re destined for failure. Kevin Gates

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl. Kevin Gates

I suffer from depression. Severe cases of it. Not one case of depression, not a severe case, but severe cases of depression. Music is my only outlet, it’s therapeutic to me. It’s a release. It’s how I vent emotionally. Kevin Gates

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I was born in Earl K. Long Hospital. I was born Feb. 5th, 1986. I have a lot of family members. My grandmother had five girls, and all of them had children. It was always a house full. A lot of cousins. A lot of family members. Kevin Gates

I always had music growing up, but music was also like a journal. It was like my personal diary or personal journal. A lot of the things I couldn’t express to an individual, I would express them in my music. Kevin Gates

Say what you doing and not what you finna do. Kevin Gates

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in. Kevin Gates

I don’t have a religion. I ain’t nothing wrong with church as long as they selling chicken. Cause I read the Quran, I read the Kabalah, I read the Bible. They all got the same three basic principles Love God, love your neighbor as yourself, and. As far as me being, I live by those principles. Kevin Gates

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I think California has the best energy. Kevin Gates

I’ve always stood on my own two. I don’t need a team. I don’t do the entourage thing, 30 people. I don’t do that. That’s just not me. Kevin Gates

Recreative is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don’t like the way that recreational sounds I don’t like to say I do a lot of recreational reading. I like to say that I read recreatively. I do a lot of recreative reading. Kevin Gates

The energy in the daytime is so different because everyone is so unhappy and depressed and you can pick up on that energy psychokinetically. So I like to come out at night. Everything’s settled, you can see more. Kevin Gates

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast. Kevin Gates

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Out my window. I see everything I dream about and wished I had. Kevin Gates

I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every project There’s One In Every Family, Street Life I had to have them. And he just stopped. And that was disappointing, cause that was my favorite rapper at one time. Kevin Gates

Some may consider this a problem, I easily fall in love. Kevin Gates

The only frustrating thing about jail is that I can’t make music. Kevin Gates

When you come up in the slums, having nothin make you humble. Kevin Gates

I have a cult like following because I exemplify what it is to be a human being. Kevin Gates

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Knowledge is provided but only to those who need to know. Kevin Gates

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever I rap about it. Kevin Gates

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief. Kevin Gates

I’m never on Twitter. I’m never on Instagram. And that’s not by choice it’s just that those things never really interested me. I might post a picture here and there, but that ain’t really been my focus. Kevin Gates

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem. Anybody that has extreme highs and extreme lows is bipolar to any psychologist and that’s not necessarily the truth. Kevin Gates

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I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment. Kevin Gates

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt. Kevin Gates

I’ve just always been a reader. Kevin Gates

I’m a big skeptic so I won’t just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I’ma get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies. Kevin Gates

Let me tell you something about Tunechi about that boy. That boy comes to the studio every day and grind as if he doesn’t have a dollar in his pocket. Kevin Gates

I love God, I love everybody else around me as myself, and I love my enemy. Kevin Gates

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When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way. Kevin Gates

Pray to god someone prays for me. Kevin Gates

I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I’m in. Kevin Gates

To be honest I am not looking to be romantic, already got someone at home. Kevin Gates

I don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing. Kevin Gates

Being in the neighborhood and the poverty stricken environment that I grew up in, I took a detour. I gravitated towards some of the individuals that did a lot of the wrong things with the right intentions. Kevin Gates

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud. Kevin Gates

I don’t gang bang but I’ll bang tha thang! Kevin Gates

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Coming up in the streets, I had to learn how to read people early on. I’m a very analytical person. I observe a lot of the things that people don’t notice. Kevin Gates

Every time the leaves are changing it’s the loneliest time of the year. Kevin Gates

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right. Kevin Gates

I love to be clean. I wear the same things, all of my clothes pretty much look the same. I’m a plain and simple type of guy. I don’t really do a lotta busy colors and things of that nature. I feel like less is more. Kevin Gates

I don’t believe in conspiracy theories. I’m just a cold-blooded investigator. Kevin Gates

You have to be intimate with a person to know that person. Kevin Gates

My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it. Kevin Gates

Fall in love fast, make sure I handle it delicate. Kevin Gates

When you’re in prison, you want to know that you were thought about. Kevin Gates

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I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand. Kevin Gates

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever. Kevin Gates

I write a lot of my best music in the car, like late night. Three, four in the morning. I’m in the passenger seat, I got my driver, my getaway driver. My Bonnie, I’m Clyde. That’s when everything is just settled. In the daytime it’s chaotic. Everybody just goin nowhere fast. In a rush to go nowhere. Kevin Gates

I’ve always been a loner. Kevin Gates

Can you keep up with the lingo. Kevin Gates

If you look at the movie Belly, I identify with Sincere the most. I am a gangster. I love my lady to death. I’m not in the game for the wrong reasons. I’m not in the game for the glory. I’m in the game to survive so the people that I love could be straight. I’m a highly intelligent individual. Kevin Gates

Breathing is so important with physical activity, then how much more important is it with psychological activity? Kevin Gates

I’m not afraid to make mistakes. Kevin Gates

The Notebook that’s my favorite one. I’ve read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love. Kevin Gates

I always wanted a family. Kevin Gates

I vent through my music. That’s the only outlet I have. Kevin Gates

I was doing sold out shows before I got radio play. Kevin Gates

I did a lot of drugs. I didn’t do multiple drugs, but I overindulged in whatever drug of choice. Kevin Gates

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me. Kevin Gates

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well. Kevin Gates

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it. Kevin Gates

Don’t respect a lot of rappers, feel I had a harder life. Kevin Gates

I could care less about the particular. I like to make music. Kevin Gates

Any artist that’s as serious about making music as I am, I’m cool with that. But if you tellin me, Man, send me a verse and I’ma send you a verse. No. That’s not collaborating. We don’t know each other and I’m serious about this music. Kevin Gates

I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much I work, I work, I work. Kevin Gates

I’ve just always been a reader. My grandmother just expressed the importance of literacy, if I said that correctly. She just always expressed the importance of being able to write and being able to read. Kevin Gates

I like being with my family. That’s my party. Kevin Gates

I can’t say any artist inspired me, because I’m inspired by the things that go on around me. Kevin Gates

I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama. Kevin Gates

I know my voice is very distinctive because in a room of 100 people, my voice is always picked out. Kevin Gates

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music. Kevin Gates

Let me hear the music. I’ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It’s like boxing. I’m only as strong as my opponent. Kevin Gates

I’m a felon. I get pulled over all the time. Kevin Gates

I don’t pay attention to sales because it’s not about that for me. It’s about the music. Music is all I have. Kevin Gates

It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist. Kevin Gates

I love to make music, I love to get tattoos. That’s just what I love. If I wasn’t getting paid I’d still do it. Kevin Gates

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that. Kevin Gates

Anything lost, can be found again, except for time wasted A vision without action is merely a dream Action, it’s the grind, it’s the hustle, it’s the persistence. Kevin Gates

I really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control. Kevin Gates

Everybody round you pretendin that they your partner, let you have a problem they won’t even help you out. Kevin Gates

I’m super serious about music. That’s, like, the only thing I’m serious about. Kevin Gates

If you associate yourself with peer pressure or complacency, you’re destined for failure. Kevin Gates

Biggie Smalls, Jay Z, Nas, Eminem, Big L, Tupac. That was, like, my top five, generally. Kevin Gates

One of my most popular songs, Satellites, I paid $300 for that beat on SoundClick. Kevin Gates

I don’t have a religion. I ain’t nothing wrong with church as long as they selling chicken. Cause I read the Quran, I read the Kabalah, I read the Bible. They all got the same three basic principles Love God, love your neighbor as yourself, and. As far as me being, I live by those principles. Kevin Gates

I like Peter Tosh, Bob Marley of course. All of Capleton, Sizzla, Frisco Kid, Buju Banton. Kevin Gates

Rap was more of a release for me, a journal. Kevin Gates

Never break or fold, that’s what it takes to be major. Kevin Gates

I’m a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don’t look like the typical reader. I’m in Barnes Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed to be in there. I am in there, pants sagging, hat backwards. Kevin Gates

I’m not no Internet person. Kevin Gates

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me. Kevin Gates

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born. Kevin Gates

I don’t just listen to rap. Kevin Gates

I’m glad I can’t vote. Kevin Gates

Man, all lives matter. Kevin Gates

Jail and the streets go hand in hand. You can’t have one with out the other. They coincide. Kevin Gates

I attended college in prison. I was in jail, so there ain’t no going to no classes. They have programs in certain facilities where you can earn good time, and then you get time taken off your sentence. But as far as going to classes, it’s not like that. You study, and then an administrator gives you a test. I got a Master’s in psychology. Kevin Gates