Terrence LeVarr Thornton (Pusha T) Quotes
My vision for G.O.O.D. Music is just carrying on with the tradition of putting out high-quality music, high-quality art. G.O.O.D. Music is entrenched in the culture of hip-hop. It's entrenched in the culture, period.
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
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I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.
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Quality is everyone's responsibility.
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Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
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Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
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Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.
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You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.
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No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.
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My movies are not messed with by the studios.
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I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down in a tight ball game. Either I get the money (more than Barrymore), or I don't play!
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A fitting room to me has always been like a confessional ... where my body and my contrition take up the entire room.
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My vision for G.O.O.D. Music is just carrying on with the tradition of putting out high-quality music, high-quality art. G.O.O.D. Music is entrenched in the culture of hip-hop. It's entrenched in the culture, period.
