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Quotes by Musician

"Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!"

"If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food."

"An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent."

"There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period."

"It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live."

"In those days the big U.S. labels didn't have any particular interest in the Latin market."

"Oh Mr.Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine."

"I basically started playing violin at the age of six. That lasted about three years because my previous teacher died and the second teacher didn't really know how to successfully get me going."

"When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players."

"His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen."

"It's totally different. I usually don't tell people about the Pleased if they know me from the harp. And if they are there to see the Pleased, I usually don't tell them about the harp. I am nervous that these people will expect something similar."

"That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person."
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"They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same."

"Once I had all the attention, all I had to do was deliver."

"Well, dojo is a traditional Japanese word for training hall."

"Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song."

"Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want."

"When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again."

"We can't forget what happened on May 4th, 1970, when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us."

"I try to be careful to not just say it's a greatest hits show because we've also made efforts to keep people up to date so to speak because we continually write and record and put out albums."

"I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did."
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