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" I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment. "
Chuck D
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" I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term. "
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" Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it. "
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" I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock. "
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" I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope. "
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" You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48 box of the United States, you're going to be frustrated by its limitations. You gotta think outside the box. "
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" One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy. "
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" I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy. "
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" There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.' "
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" Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people. "
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" Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound. "
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" You're always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity's sake. "
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" Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet. "
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" When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive. "
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" You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it. "
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" I'd rather have a hundred thousand or a million people saying I'm nuts and I'm crazy for my musical choices and what I've said lyrically, than a million people all raising their hand on the first day. "
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" I've signed with major labels, and I haven't had any control over the money. "
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" Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow. "
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" Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that. "
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" My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being. "
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" I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from. "
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" I believe that, artistically and culturally, the free radio air should be able to support local artists of whatever genre. Play 40 percent of your local artists; don't suck up to major labels to the point where you neglect your own locale. "
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" I think governments are the cancer of civilization. "
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" Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there. "
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" I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for. "
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" You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now. "
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" Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives. "
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" My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly. "
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" I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States. "
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