Brandon Flowers Quotes
You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap star. I do - I'm always competitive. But there's this weird perception of me as someone who's sitting around plotting like a devil. It's not like that.
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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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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I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
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But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
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Hip-hop was started on groups.
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I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.
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Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.
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I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.
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You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.
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I'm a big fan of hip-hop, so it reflects in my approach.
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The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.
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'Stillmatic' is the rebirth of 'Illmatic,' my first debut album to come out in 1994. 'Stillmatic' is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.
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Growing up in New York City and hip-hop are two inseparable things, two things that are totally intertwined in our lives.
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I wouldn't even say the internet is a gift and a curse for hip-hop. All types of music are bootlegged, including movies which are bootlegged.
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Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.
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Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.
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Me and Frosted went to get a drink. But she ordered somethin' bugged, and I ain't know what to think. She ordered potassium, calcium, Carbohydrate, scotch with sodium. She took me to her crib, threw me on the couch... I woke up the next morning with a spoon in my mouth.
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I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
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To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time.
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What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action.
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Always been purple. Like I remember being in the first grade, looking up at the color charts, and saying, 'Man, purple is the best color, man, it's the best color, it just is the best color.' I have a lot of purple shirts and stuff, I'm always wearing purple.
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You can't compete with hip-hop. That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap star. I do - I'm always competitive. But there's this weird perception of me as someone who's sitting around plotting like a devil. It's not like that.
