David James Elliott Quotes
I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere.
Quotes to Explore
-
Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
-
During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
-
After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
-
Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
-
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
-
You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
-
One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.
-
It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
-
Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
-
In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
-
Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
-
Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
-
Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
-
You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
-
Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
-
I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
-
What is a farm but a mute gospel?
-
I can't even imagine life without music!
-
I am a Bay Area guy, no question.
-
I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording.
-
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
-
I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.
-
I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
-
I grew up playing war. We threw dirt and rocks at each other. We'd lead attacks. We'd break up into squads. It became a neighborhood thing for a while, our neighborhood against the other neighborhood. There was always a war breaking out somewhere.
