Mike D Quotes
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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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For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time.
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I do really enjoy Jay McInerney's wine writing. He's a good writer. He brings his fiction-writing skillset. He's not afraid to put wine in kind of a racy context and speak very candidly about it.
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When I was growing up in New York, we were the anomaly. Our family stayed, but back then families didn't stay. Once you had a second kid, you immediately left, so the kids could run around outside.
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It's never been our intention to sell millions of albums, but if our message touches that many people, then so be it.
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I'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.
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When I first became aware of music, it was probably the same way a lot of people do - even more suburban or rural people - from my older brothers playing music.
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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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Food was always a focus for us, lyrically.
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I don't know if it's just me getting older or if it's a reflection of times changing, but it just seems to me like among most of my friends and peers, there's a lot more time being spent at home than out.
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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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It might shock you, but I haven't been to that many fashion shows, and I'd never done a commissioned piece for a fashion house.
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What a lot of the world missed was just how caring New York became post-9/11.
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To me, the whole thing with the roots of rap music was when the DJ had to supply all the music for the group with two turntables. And the whole criteria of what that DJ would use had nothing to do with what type of band made a record.
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I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. He was like my closest older brother. There's just so much that we lived through together.
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It's what happens when you've been in the game a long time. We had to grow up in a very public way.