Tablo Quotes
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.
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I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.
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The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.
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There's a lot of American people who like K-Pop for some reason. I don't know why, you know? But they like it even if they can't understand it because it has that style, that appeal.
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When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are... and what you do and what you make.
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I guess the difference between the Korean hip-hop scene and the American hip-hop scene is that in the American hip-hop scene, you know, they have their Jay-Zs. They can become conglomerates through hip-hop. In Korea, it doesn't happen.
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If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.
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Happiness is very simple and minimal.
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Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color
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You don't wanna know the sinner. You don't wanna know the killer. Because it's you. Television is stalling evolution. Medication is stalling evolution. Evolution is stalling revolution. Evolution, revolution. Collaboration, the start of revolution. My decision, the start of revolution. Revolution, the start of evolution. Revolution, evolution.
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To be strong is to understand weakness. To be weak is to have fears. To have fears is to have something precious to you. To have something precious to you is to be strong.
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People believe those fairytales about falling in love at first sight at the bus, subway, or at the streets. But it doesn’t make sense how they’d laugh at the ones who fell in love at first sight through TV screens. Loving a celebrity IS a type of love. Love is fair to everyone.
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All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?
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It didn’t rain for you, maybe, but it always rains for me. The sky shatters and rains shards of glass.
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The musician and the listener. If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show.
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Your life, your soul, your world. They cannot kill it. Look at me, I’ve died but I opened my eyes again.
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When I stop at a stop sign, I don’t think about the distance I’ve crossed. I just wish I never had to stop.
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Cowards, I believe, are people who are afraid to embrace what they want or need in a natural, honest way.
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I always make sure there’s an opening in my room - an inch at the door, or maybe even at the window. My grandmother taught me that if one dies during sleep, the soul needs an exit, or it will be forever trapped in the room.
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These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.
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I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.