Chuck D (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) Quotes
People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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I try not to do too much self-analysis apart from when I'm actually paying $170 an hour for it. I try to keep it in the room.
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It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.
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Love could solve everything.
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I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.
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When people say 'Lysistrata' has always been seen as an anti-war play, what's interesting is to not make it an anti-war play, because I actually think there are important times to go to war in this world. That's just the reality. But what's interesting is the not caring.
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People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.
