The Beastie Boys Quotes
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If it's genuinely new, when people are hearing it, they're not really gonna be comfortable because they haven't heard it a thousand times before.
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Our talent and skill as rappers is clearly the first thing you notice. I don't know what we were thinking. We just really love rap and wanted to be rappers. Is that weird?
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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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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.
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We're banned from a whole lot of hotels, and we're running out of hotels we can stay in.
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The amazing thing about music is that however many thousands of records I've got now, I know that there are still thousands more that I haven't even begun to discover.
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Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen and go with it, and you will actually go through it, and it's a lot less stressful.
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Arrogance generally is a bad thing, but with a band, somehow you have to have this gang mentality or this certain degree of arrogance to push forward an idea that's new enough that people aren't comfortable with it at first.
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Sexism is deeply rooted in our history and society that waking up and stepping outside of it is like I'm watching 'Night of the Living Dead Part Two' all day, every day.
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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.
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With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.
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Thinking about the cold weather in England... Don't be afraid to rock the David Niven look.
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We did make fools of ourselves, but people were into it.
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That's what real punk is about - doing it yourself and building a community where people share ideas and share creativity.
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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.
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When you get to a point where you're not beholden to a record company, then it's up to you to say, 'OK, enough knob-turning. We're done.'
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I grew up with a clock radio next to my bed.
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If people pay money to see you, they have to cheer. They can't boo, or else they're chumping themselves.
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We make all the decisions on our records... We have complete veto power.
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I was showing up at the studio all the time with no bag, being like, 'I don't want to have a backpack. I've had backpacks my whole life, and I'm a grown man now. I should have something better.'
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I'm in need of a man apron. A very manly apron.
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I don't like the George Costanza-style wallet.
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I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.
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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.