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It's really hard to find a lot of things that rhyme with Michael Diamond.
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London cabs always dis me. I purposefully give them a good tip because I'm trying to straighten up the image where they don't want to pick up some shady-looking, bummy kid like myself. I'm trying to teach them that if you pick up the bummy-looking kid, you still get tipped, man. But they still jerk me around.
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When Yauch died, it was really like losing my older brother. I mean, I have biological older brothers, but growing up, Adam really was my older brother.
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I'm in need of a man apron. A very manly apron.
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I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.
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New York isn't segregated the way many American cities are, where there are specific ethnic neighborhoods that don't necessarily co-exist, or they co-exist but in a much separate sense.
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With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.
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There is an overall seriousness in tone that pervades 'To The 5 Boroughs.'
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When you get to a point where you're not beholden to a record company, then it's up to you to say, 'OK, enough knob-turning. We're done.'
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I kind of idolized older punk-rock and hip-hop bands, and I was, like, 15 when I started the Beastie Boys. And what business did we having doing that at that age?
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Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that's new enough that people aren't comfortable with it at first.
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I was going to clubs in Manhattan when I was 14.
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The amazing thing about music is that however many thousands of records I've got now, I know that there are still thousands more that I haven't even begun to discover.
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I was showing up at the studio all the time with no bag, being like, 'I don't want to have a backpack. I've had backpacks my whole life, and I'm a grown man now. I should have something better.'
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I grew up with a clock radio next to my bed.
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Obviously, there are moments that you look back at and cringe - things in the past involving violence or disrespect to women or disrespect to other people that are so far away from what I want to put out there now. But it's actually a privilege to be able to change and be making records that reflect that change.
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Wine needs to have a context in a social gathering to fulfill its historical place in this world.
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If people pay money to see you, they have to cheer. They can't boo, or else they're chumping themselves.
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Japan is brilliant for vinyl. There's all this rare stuff that I've been looking two years for, and you walk into a store, and you find it straight away.
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If it's genuinely new, when people are hearing it, they're not really gonna be comfortable because they haven't heard it a thousand times before.
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Thinking about the cold weather in England... Don't be afraid to rock the David Niven look.
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We're kind of doing what Bob McAllister did with 'Wonderama,' which is making people realize that kids are people, too.
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In the time we made 'To the 5 Boroughs,' there was a political seriousness because of what was happening in the world.
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For 'Paul's Boutique,' we had a lot more money and a lot more time. It was definitely more on our own terms.
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