Talib Kweli Quotes

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

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• People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Success
  • Appreciate

• If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Music
  • Long

• I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Player
  • Years

• People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!

  

  Halsey
  • Time
  • Understand
  • Appreciate

• Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Style
  • Speak
  • Jazz

• In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just very talented. For example, there's this one jazz singer, her name is Sheila Majid, and I was always singing her songs.

  

  Yuna
  • Singing
  • Name
  • Jazz

• Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • World
  • Appreciate

• I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Jazz

• I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • You
  • Jazz
  • Blues

• In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.

  

  La India
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Know
  • Always
  • Appreciate

• That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• I don't mind running; I don't mind taking a few knocks. But hopefully, it's just not 'Sam's an action dude.' That, to me, is not what I wanted. I wanted to bring a sense of weight and emotionality of doing Australian films and bring that into a bigger blockbuster, so you're not just kind of grunting and groaning and running around.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Hopefully

• I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.

  

  Victor Ortiz
  • Difficult
  • Dreams
  • Start

• My music is jazz.

  

  Yusef Lateef
  • Music
  • Jazz

• The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what make Israel the homeland of the Jewish people.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • People
  • World
  • Appreciate

• I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Jazz
  • Ballet
  • Once

• A lot of the ups and downs for me, especially the downs, I feel like it came in a lot of indirect ways because I didn't appreciate what I had.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Feel
  • Appreciate
  • Ways

• My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Father
  • Resist
  • Cremated

• I liked sculpting better than painting. You have more freedom in sculpting.

  

  Anthony Quinn
  • Freedom
  • Painting
  • Sculpting

• Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us, Ere is a promise Of summer to be.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Summer
  • Promise
  • Ghost

• Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Silence
  • Speech
  • Device

• Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Appreciate
  • Jazz
  • Hopefully