Aaron Dontez Yates (Tech N9ne) Quotes
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When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.
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I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.
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Music my rampart, and my only one.
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When I was driving home after registration, I heard this song on the radio, a guy singing about not ever going to class in college and always hanging out and singing for his friends. I laughed and said, I can relate, because it was so much like me. I realized right then I would pull out of school and pursue a music career.
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There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
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When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.
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Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.
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...music, if it really resonates, will beat somewhere right near your heartbeat. That music will make sense to you...because it's in rhythm with your soul.
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Some of my best friends have written Broadway shows. Allee Willis and Brenda Russell wrote The Color Purple which has been recently revived on Broadway. That to me is such a different hat that you have to wear, but music is music. A Broadway show is something I would love to have the opportunity to do.
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When you're around people who are trying to be funny all day and trying to one-up each other, that's just naturally - if you want to do it - it's going to make you better.
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I feel like I've gotten to the point where when I get tired of making art I can make a smooth transition into making music and vice versa. There is always something to do.
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I'm in a position where it doesn't matter what people think of me now.
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When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows.
