The Beastie Boys Quotes
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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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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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There is an overall seriousness in tone that pervades 'To The 5 Boroughs.'
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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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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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We're banned from a whole lot of hotels, and we're running out of hotels we can stay in.
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I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.
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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 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.
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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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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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With '5 Boroughs,' we were each working on beats, sitting in front of our laptops and samplers.
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I'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.
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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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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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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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Thinking about the cold weather in England... Don't be afraid to rock the David Niven look.
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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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I grew up with a clock radio next to my bed.
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I don't like the George Costanza-style wallet.
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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 know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.
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We make all the decisions on our records... We have complete veto power.
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I have no idea about the state of rap. I don't pay attention. I just listen to old music that I have.