"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social c...
"Any great work of art revives and readapts times and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world–th...
"There’s a way of playing safe, there’s a way of using tricks and there’s the way I like to play, which is dangerously where you’re going to take a chan...
"An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing is a simple way." - CHARLES BUKOWSKI...
"We were practicing in apartment, and the neighbors downstairs had been complaining about the drumming. So at one of the rehearsals, we said we’ll do it supe...
"Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the ...
"On the evening of December 17, Yasiin Bey, one in a long line of speakers, took the lectern in the Grand Ballroom of the Hilton New York, near Rockefeller Cent...
"As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might." - MARIAN ANDER...
"My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to, you know, Motown, and he liste...
"All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth s...
"I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first tim...
"I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has ju...
"When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissanc...
"Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and o...
"Insomnia is a very prevalent issue. It's a women's health issue, and I chose to talk about it because so many people have experienced it to varying degrees. Fo...
"There's a certain type of character that you can't help but come in contact with growing up and living in Brooklyn and Long Island. A certain mixture of moxie,...
"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again an...
I'm very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don't really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of a God. It's about c...
