Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty Quotes
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Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.
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When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.
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There's this tendency to be like, 'Where's the negative stuff? How valid is the criticism?' But honestly, what people think of me is none of my business. If I live on the Internet looking for public approval, I'm going to be miserable.
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It's weird because music is this thing that you love doing, and it comes completely from a place of creativity, and then that transfers into having to manage a business and make decisions and figure out what is the best route to go in terms of getting your product to as many people as possible.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.
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I think music should be experienced by people all ages.
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I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.
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I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
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You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
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My partner has to have good sized bones.
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Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.
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'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.
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When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
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I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.
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The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.
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Consciousness rap - a term that I don't think exactly exists but gets thrown around a lot - is not exactly popular.
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I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.
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It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.
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It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'