"More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry"
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"Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into."
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"I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience."
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"You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently."
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"I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance."
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"What I'm aiming to do within hip-hop is to point out that the music itself is powerful; it reaches so many people."
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"Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it."
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"I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal."
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"Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it"
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"I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done"
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"I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK"
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"What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves."
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"this is her body this is her blood"
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"I feel pretty vulnerable all the time."
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"Punk rock meditation, that's what keeps it going. That's how I let go, you know. It's exactly what I do, I blast it and run around crazy banging my head on the wall."
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"Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?"
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"The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote."
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"When I look at certain aspects of popular culture - not everything because I like a lot of things - sometimes my heart breaks a little bit, just a little bit. I begin to ponder what happened to this generation, I don't know."
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"The thing I've been talking about with daughter is the idea of - and I'm talking about essentially in America - the possibility of, a lost generation. I've been listening to a lot of music - as a fan, as a critic, as somebody who likes to dance - but I hear, you know, within these songs and half the people I hear, these philosophies encoded and embedded in these songs."
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"If you feel something, you should do it."
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