Ernest Dion Wilson Quotes
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There's this concept in urban music and lifestyle that money is everything, and I'm just not with it. If it makes money, it doesn't make it good. If it's good, it's good.
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I come from an era where you just build something. Me and Common built what we built from Chicago from scratch.
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I tried to embrace the concept of the sampler as an instrument, looking at how to take it artistically to another place where it can be appreciated, more than just taking someone's song and doing a 4-bar loop.
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Most of the greatest albums in the history of music are one producer. It's just a fact. Or one collective.
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Sometimes I think albums are so ambitious, they don't stand as bodies of work because you try to achieve so much, and sometimes we need to do less. Say less.
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Hit records create slang, and if you create slang, you get into a broader conversation level.
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I really like G-Herbo.
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I don't speak out of place, but if you ask me, I will definitely speak the truth. Also, my opinion is my opinion. I don't feel the need to force anybody to agree or disagree with me. But if you ask me, I do feel it's important to speak with confidence about my feelings about whatever the questions are.
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'Take It EZ' was actually the first video I ever produced for.
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There's not too many one-producer rap albums. There are lot of one-producer rock albums... and country albums.
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When you really make things that really challenge the status quo or challenge issues, and you do it artistically, and you do it with no fear, people are listening.
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I've won; I've lost. I'm at the point where I do what I believe in and, win or lose, believe in what I do.
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I come from a very specific love of hip-hop. I'm saying hip-hop, not rap. That's what saved my life. I carry that badge with a lot of pride and honor, and I really enjoy trying to raise the perception and the bar of what we do.
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I am the guy that, if you catch me saying something, I don't do the, 'Don't tell anybody I said it.' If I said it, I said it. I'm gonna stand right here and say it again to whoever - the end. What's the trouble? Where's the problem?
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The effect that 'Illmatic' had on us at that moment was serious.
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I have a Chicago personality, which means that just because I'm friends with one person, I don't assume I'm friends with his friends.
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For me, the '80s was great because you had Boy George, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Prince, and Cyndi Lauper. No one put boxes saying this is urban, this is popular, this is underground. It was just good or bad.
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After 'Resurrection,' I was getting calls for people to do work with me, and I was turning it down.
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Trophies or no trophies, we are all just striving to do some really good art and help people's lives with it.
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My entire approach is built on the idea that things can be commercial and artistic.
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When I do music, I have a hard time experiencing it like everyone else, because there's so much thought that goes into it. You can sometimes fool yourself into thinking it's better than what it is, which stops me from being creative on the next thing I do.
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I'm not here to put my music out on the Internet with no support and then say I got creative freedom. I've got creative freedom wherever I go: I don't create anything that I don't want to create. That's freedom. Since when does a company force you to make something that you don't want to make? If they do that, you leave.
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When you do your art, and you may think people don't recognize it or appreciate it, you actually go and try to get better.
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Don't ever judge anybody. You don't know who anybody is, period... You gotta humble yourself. Just because you are where you are, it doesn't mean you aren't talking to someone great.