The Beastie Boys Quotes
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The initial notion for 'Check Your Head' was just all three of us getting back to playing instruments.
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That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.
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Real life is much c than fiction, man.
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I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize it now. I said a lot of stuff fooling around back then, and I saw it do a lot of harm.
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LL Cool J is very well known in Hollywood. He's an established commodity across several platforms, including motion pictures.
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Each time you present a tour, you're faced with these questions of, 'How do you want to present visual information? How do you want to take the music that we're making on stage and visualize that?'
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Fresh snow is amazing. The board is real different... it floats on the powder and goes really fast. If you're riding a long board, it's more like surfing than skiing.
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I think it's scary that that our elected officials aren't operating under the principles of human rights, under the principles that this government and this country was founded on.
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I meditate in the morning and before I go to sleep. These are usually the main times because, before I go to sleep, I can get focused on what happened during the day, pull that into perspective, and that'll make my sleep a little more peaceful.
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We are exercising our constitutional right to be fresh.
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We're doing what we want to do, and that's why the kids respect us.
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I guess when time came to make 'To The 5 Boroughs,' we had something important to say.
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I do think that all of the well wishes have contributed to the fact that my treatment and recovery are going well.
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Hopefully everybody in the audience thinks, 'That's cool. I could do that.' I don't like the thought that they say, 'I saw the Beastie Boys last night, and they're mega-stars.' I'm a lot happier when the kids who come backstage or to the hotel try to give us tapes of what they've done instead of just getting an autograph.
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From being in Tibet and being around Tibetans, I feel like I've learned so much more about what brings a person happiness, about what actually brings myself happiness.
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For me, growing up in New York, it started with Elvis Costello and the Clash and then got into louder things like Bad Brains and Stimulators, because those were, like, the local bands. Then I started getting into bands from England like the Slits. I remember seeing Gang of Four at Irving Plaza; that was a really big show for me.
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I think the really significant part of it for us, for the western world, is we have a lot to gain from the Tibetans - there are certain lessons that are within Tibetan culture. I mean understandings of compassion and of nonviolence that are things that we really lack in our society.
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I don't know - the idea of a specific wine paired with a specific piece of music seems a little far-fetched to me. But maybe I just need to be opened to it.
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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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No Catholics in my family.
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When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.
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If you are striving to have more happiness in your life, it helps to guide your mind towards starting to recognize what are selfish motivations and what are constructive motivations.
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What would've been the downside of holding bin Laden accountable by our own values of justice by which our country is based on?
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All the music I listened to in high school that I loved and that moved me wasn't the same music other kids were listening to in school. I got into punk rock and new wave, then dub and hip-hop.