Musician Quotes

Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry.
My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.
'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.
The downfall of the industry seems to actually be good for art. I think the industry will find their way once the focus shifts from its greed-based origins, downsizes, and begins to support creative visions that speak to our times and shifting ideals.
The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.
The MC that we love are usually the ones that we consider be kinda heartless, like 50 Cent. That's pretty much the prowess and power of an MC. That's what sells.
The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.
The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence.
The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.
There's no doubt in my mind that 'Slam' is going to be huge. It's a film about the power of language. People are going to see this and get blown away.
We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.
We cannot continually barricade ourselves under some falsified idea of race, because our idea of blackness and race is simply reactionary. Africans didn't walk around Africa being black and proud, they walked around proud.
What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.
Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
You can't do anything that's not political in this time and age.
Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
I don't think any of our lyrics have ever been erotic in a sexual term, because I haven't really written, touched on, that subject too often. But, uh... I mean, I suppose they could point the finger at us for violence maybe in certain songs.
I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.
If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it.
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