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No Catholics in my family.
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I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.
Adam Yauch The Beastie Boys
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Denver and Boulder are good record-buying cities. I don't know why.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
I'm the first to admit that we were totally dependent on a particular place and time... for us, seeing Minor Threat at the CBGB hardcore matinee was just as necessary a force in our lives as the Treacherous Three at Club Negril or the Funky Four + One More at the Rock Lounge.
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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?
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
The teachings of Tibetan Buddhism have been passed down for a long time now. They have that system pretty well figured out.
Adam Yauch The Beastie Boys -
Lofts are great. But with a home, there is a lot to be said for delineated space. To have the luxury of a little separate work space is huge - and to have the dream-sequence master bath.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
I kind of remember a friend of mine saying, like, you guys should make a rap record. You know, because we were already making punk records. We were a punk band. And I kind of thought, that's crazy.
Adam Yauch The Beastie Boys
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I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-founded.
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We do not let our music get used in commercials for commercial products.
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We never set out to be superstars.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
Leaving Def Jam was kind of a blessing in disguise because we can make whatever record we want.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
Mr. Philippe Zdar is a little bit like the uncle of the whole Daft Punk-Phoenix-Air thing in Paris and known for being in the group Cassius. It was interesting working with Philippe.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
We have not been able to tour since MCA, Adam Yauch, died.
Mike D The Beastie Boys
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I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything.
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The bottom line with a lot of bands that funk is being applied to is that they don't really listen to funk and aren't versed in funk. Like, you know, Gordon Lightfoot.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
My parents were very, very good about not separating us as kids from their adult friends. So on any given night, we'd have, like, this kind of freak show - artists and art dealers coming over. And these are the people I feel like I learned from.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
We're gonna do a Bowling for Dollars-type thing, but it'll be Breakdancing on Cardboard for Yen for the ozone layer, so it'll be called Breaking in Space.
Adam Yauch The Beastie Boys -
Growing up in New York City and hip-hop are two inseparable things, two things that are totally intertwined in our lives.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
I remember going to the East Village for the first time as a fifteen-year-old and going to Tompkins Square Park. That really seemed like a pretty edgy thing to do.
Mike D The Beastie Boys
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Having to wake up at seven and go take the subway every morning, having to get over there with all these commuters and see every possible face of humanity and realizing that you're just the same as these other people is actually an amazingly positive thing.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.
Mike D The Beastie Boys -
Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subjective practice. That's sort of the funny thing about wine criticism or, for that matter, music criticism. At times, those are useful guides, but ultimately it's all about how you react to that music or wine.
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It's really hard to find a lot of things that rhyme with Michael Diamond.
Mike D The Beastie Boys