Ernest Dion Wilson (No I.D.) Quotes
There's not too many one-producer rap albums. There are lot of one-producer rock albums... and country albums.
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I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.
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Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.
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How high can bitcoin go? The real question is how low can the dollar go?
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I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
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I write exactly as I speak, so therefore I would not say any writer influenced me at all.
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Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
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The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.
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To embrace a woman is to embrace a sack of manure.
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When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.
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I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.
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When you're staring at your phone to navigate and being led places, you do become less aware of your environment, and the journey becomes kind of automated. There is an aliveness that comes with having to puzzle out directions for yourself. And you have to ask other people for help, which creates opportunity for social connection.
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For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
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There's not too many one-producer rap albums. There are lot of one-producer rock albums... and country albums.
