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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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far."

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Donna Grant

"I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound."

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Donna Grant

"Sound.Noisethe air employs.Melodies sweet.Tweet, tweet, tweet.Soft. Loud.A roaring crowd.Cluck. Caw. Crow.Tet, tet. Tis, tis.Guttural growl.Harrowing howl.Drip, drip, drip.Tap, tap, tap.Moan and groan.Endless drone.Ding, dang, dong.A church bell song.Vibrations in my earto hear.Sound."

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Donna Grant

"I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer."

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Donna Grant

"When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves."

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Donna Grant

"It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up."

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Donna Grant

"I want to take some jams and really concentrate on hooking up with Page because, since he's the only one not next to me, and his sound is mainly coming from my monitor rather than through the air, it's a little harder for me to hook up with him."

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Donna Grant

"I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener."

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Donna Grant

"That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound."

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Donna Grant

"The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show."

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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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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
"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 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
"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
"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."

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Grandmaster Flash
"For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me."

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Grandmaster Flash
"I had love for Breakout; I had love for Bambaataa. I had love for Kool Herc."

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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."

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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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