Kevin Gates Quotes
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To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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I like music a lot.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
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Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
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If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.
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Music my rampart, and my only one.
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Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop for the past 10 years. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free.
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I kind of treat myself like the audience. I don't like being lectured.
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People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.
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Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.
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Every story has a moral you just need to be clever enough to find it - the Dutchess
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I'm super serious about music. That's, like, the only thing I'm serious about.
