Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) Quotes
History has proven that it's impossible to crush the artist. There's always gonna be a need for somebody to write a poem or sing a song about something, about life - that makes it real. There's the word that goes beyond the word.
Yasiin Bey
Black Star
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
Salman Rushdie
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
Ad Reinhardt
For an entrepreneur with 'improbable' and 'impossible' dreams, the alleged stability that comes from getting 'a real job' is nothing but a sign of slavery.
Fabrizio Moreira
I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.
Gary Kemp
Spandau Ballet
I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.
Zakk Wylde
Black Label Society
I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting.
Edmund White
Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.
Errol Morris
The way we structure our backend, we key the payments to the box office - so that cuts the negotiating way down, and it's very transparent. One of the things I'm most proud of is that we're really transparent with our process.
Jason Blum
In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.
Joel Courtney
Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
Nathan Myhrvold
History has proven that it's impossible to crush the artist. There's always gonna be a need for somebody to write a poem or sing a song about something, about life - that makes it real. There's the word that goes beyond the word.
Yasiin Bey
Black Star
