Quotes about american-music
american-musician love
I had love for Breakout; I had love for Bambaataa. I had love for Kool Herc. Grandmaster Flash
american-musician hip hop juices
Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.
american-musician enhance record
All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to.
american-musician art cowboy creating finding form god grand helped jamming next people special student thank wizard
But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary.
american-musician disturb record
Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public.
american-musician blending jock needle next record type
The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on.
american-musician amongst gotta perform
We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other.
american-musician
For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me.
american-musician brand buy dare disco few jocks minutes monstrous record sound systems types
Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records.
american-musician
As an individual I was known as the DJ or the mixer.
american-musician bedroom date girls hormones kids normal stayed teens
Normal kids in their teens want to go and date girls and do mischievous things, your hormones are jumping around, but I stayed in my bedroom in search of something.
american-musician love playing strict terms
I love playing in Fantomas, which is very strict in terms of composition. Trevor Dunn
american-musician attracted
NYC is chaotic. And I am attracted to chaos.
american-musician hamilton roy
We were grooving, at that point, in the same direction, but remember, Roy Hamilton and myself were going into a path and a direction that had no programming. Solomon Burke
american-musician buy fried gonna great invest kentucky properties
If we could buy these properties and then invest in the Black community, with our own McDonald's, with our own Kentucky Fried Chickens, it was gonna be a great move.
american-musician grain supposed
But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do.
american-musician deals time white
The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.
american-musician publish
I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.
american-musician beautiful choice great nixon wise
That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.
american-musician box chinese record shrimp walked
I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!
american-musician era estate invest money record south tool using
We were using the record as a tool to invest money into real estate all through the South, because we were living in an era where the South was changing.
american-musician business changed children kidnapped problems
We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else.
american-musician drag gonna gotta
You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud.
american-musician stamp worked
That was probably the stamp that went into my mind, because I worked in television for many years, doing that kind of music, so that really was my strong forte. Skitch Henderson
american-musician tough
Well, in our business, it's a very tough profession.
american-musician classical
We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts.
american-musician
If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.
american-musician
But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.
american-musician education
I had had a classical education prior to that.
american-musician boundaries cost crossing factor manner
We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do.
american-musician
We'll have all the same players... We'll be missing one, actually. Sonny Bono
american-musician
I'll play it first and tell you what it is later. Miles Davis
american-musician
I'll play it and tell you what it is later.