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Grandmaster Flash

"Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public."

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"Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public."

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A.E. Samaan

"Yes it was we, are a few years back parted from our record company and took the album that we were making with them and released it independently in the United States had a number one Independent debut in the United States."

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A.E. Samaan

"This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it."

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A.E. Samaan

"When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!"

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A.E. Samaan

"I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe."

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A.E. Samaan

"Better be alone than in bad company."

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A.E. Samaan

"I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately."

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A.E. Samaan

"I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created."

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A.E. Samaan

"Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world."

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A.E. Samaan

"I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12."

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A.E. Samaan

"Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I'm at now. I mean, he's shown me just about everything on and off the race track."

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Grandmaster Flash
"We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop."

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Grandmaster Flash
"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."

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Grandmaster Flash
"I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song."

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Grandmaster Flash
"For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times."

Sound

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Grandmaster Flash
"I think what's happening here is, there's a group or maybe one person who is saying this is gonna be the definition and this is what we want to get the kids to do now."

Kids

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Grandmaster Flash
"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."

Waiting

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Grandmaster Flash
"For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along."

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Grandmaster Flash
"So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is not Hip Hop or whatever they're doing in LA is not Hip Hop, who are these people to say that?"

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Grandmaster Flash
"We can even sing off key, but if it's produced properly it can be a hit."

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Grandmaster Flash
"What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did."

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