Quotes About Control

The story of Gucci is that there were too many cooks in the kitchen.

When I'm in the kitchen, I don't want anybody else in the kitchen. I have a system - and the system, it's another form of insanity that has grabbed me.

I really wanted to focus on my legs, and get the legs strong, get the quads strong so I can control the knee.

No hard guy's not scared when another hard guy's knife is coming at you. You're scared, obviously, but you've to act less scared than he is. It's who is going to act less scared.

The fight will last as long as I allow it to last, and then I will knock him out.

The biggest challenge for me is just knowing how to calm down.

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Hong Kong is not an independent entity... and cannot decide, on its own, its political development.

China is dead set on making Hong Kong more like it.

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

You didn't have to go on location if you could just shoot down City Hall, LA.

You might be like, 'I want really big hits.' But when you get really big hits, and your label is making $150 million, they are people who are now interested in what you do. They are going to begin to tell you what to do, and so you become important. So your creative freedom - you're not going to have that again.

You can't control it once you turn it into the label, so there's the expectation that it'll leak a week before the album comes out. That's the world we live in.

When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn't know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

The control game has just been changed. The artist has a lot more control than the label, which is special. I feel like the fans crave that. I feel like they can tell when it's not genuine.

It's really tough - if you're on a major label and they want you to have a number one song, you need to do what they say.

Whosoever has money has power. It's not about a label. If you have money tomorrow, you will be powerful.

I wanted to stay independent because I figured there was no way I was going to be able to have control to create the type of music I want. I was basically ignoring a lot of labels.

I got fed up with the idea of partnering with labels on a major scale because of how they have to deliver things. They get gun-shy.

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.