Keith Matthew Thornton Quotes
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If you want to say you got to take a woman out to a fancy restaurant, I write songs about hey I'm not taking you to a fancy restaurant, I wanna take you to McDonald's.
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I think people get mad because I make more direct records.
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Certain songs I feel different people should be on different tracks, you know it's emotional. I put myself into characters for certain records.
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I call you once...you never dialed back. Twice...you never dialed back. Saturday morning, live, I'm on Soul Train, talkin' to Don Cornelius. Saturday night, my phone rings... Saturday night, I won't answer. Saturday night, my phone rings again... Saturday night, I don't answer.
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But still at that particular level of commercialism I listen to those projects I still hear some stagnation in a lot of the stuff.
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I think I speak for the guy who is just s a regular guy who says yo I don't wanna go to an expensive restaurant.
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The beats change, I mean you got a lot of artists out there advancing new sound, new technology, new beats everything sounding very futuristic, so I feel it would have been boring for me to do another hip-hop record.
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I'm one of those artists that people take my music without my consent. People love to snatch my music and do things on their own. You got people that put me on beats I never rapped on. I just feel that it's a bad thing.
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I think a lot of the high technology is distracting.
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I wear black while suckers wear pink.
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People tend to lock into one thing that you do that they consider to be better than the last one.
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So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists.
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I write the most sexiest records out.
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Everybody's slow right now, there's nothing happening musically, everybody's all on cable television and being manipulated by all the television right now, what's on cable telling people what to listen to and stuff.
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I don't need drugs to make weird music.
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I thought of rap I thought of Grand Master Flash and I thought of about what they went through.
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I didn't think of rap with that type of south feel and that look and the hay and all that.
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I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view.
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They use the simple back and forth, the same, old rhythm That a baby can pick up, and join, right with 'em. But their rhymes are pathetic, they think they copacetic Using nursery terms, at least not poetic.
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As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.