Latest Saul Williams Quotes from Interviews

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• The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.

  Saul Williams

  Self, Organization, Principles

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• It's not the rules everywhere, you know? That's not the rules everywhere - that things have to be dumbed down in order to become massively popular. And that hasn't always been the rule, even in America.

  Saul Williams

  Order, America, Knows

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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.

  Saul Williams

  Letting Go, Running, Wall

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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.

  Saul Williams

  Heart, This Generation, Generations

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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?

  Saul Williams

  Teacher, Library, Generations

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break the skin, you have to break it open to get to the good part.

  Saul Williams

  Heart, Thinking, Skins

• 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.

  Saul Williams

  Daughter, Song, Philosophy

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• If you feel something, you should do it.

  Saul Williams

  Should, Feels, Ifs

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I think that heartbreak is a good thing.

  Saul Williams

  Thinking, Good Things

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.

  Saul Williams

  People, Sitting, Cafes

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• You start to realize connections between experiences and things that push your buttons, and things that have touched you in those vulnerable areas and what-have-you. And they form a little collection over time - at least I do - and as time progresses and new things are learned, you kind of sift through those things until they're air or danceable, you know? But they start as this thing that's either too hard or too soft to dance to.

  Saul Williams

  Air, Progress, Buttons

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I'm somewhat of an empath, I would say. I relate easily to ideas and stories, books, films, music. I'm moved by all of these things. Art in general. But not just art, you know?

  Saul Williams

  Art, Book, Ideas

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I'm a very sensitive person at times. Not just to words that anybody says, but in relationships for example, the people that you open up to, you listen to, you hear - you know? So a lot of times, the key to some of my vulnerability is just through things, simple things - or critiques or whatever - or could be very simple things that are said.

  Saul Williams

  Simple, Keys, Sensitive Person

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I'm usually trying to get back into the dream or analyzing the dream. And yeah, the days, most days begin like that.

  Saul Williams

  Dream, Trying, Analyzing

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.

  Saul Williams

  Vulnerable, Feels

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• When I wake up in the morning, the first things that I see are the clouds. They're right there. I look out my window now and there's always, always a black bird of some sort on the ledge there. Usually I wake up and look at the birds.

  Saul Williams

  Morning, Clouds, Bird

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I think everybody on this planet does that - trying to capture your dream after you wake up.

  Saul Williams

  Dream, Thinking, Trying

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• When I finally decide that I'm ready to get out of bed, it could be the sunlight, it could be the fact that I'm awake, and, OK, first of all, I wake up in the morning because I have to go to the bathroom.

  Saul Williams

  Morning, Bed, Wake Up

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Honestly, I don't always want to get up in the mornings, but I do anyway.

  Saul Williams

  Morning, Want, Get Up

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I hear the weed is really strong in California.

  Saul Williams

  Weed, Strong, California

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 11, 2012.

• I can't say that I always want to get out of bed, you know.

  Saul Williams

  Bed, Want, Knows

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• There is a lot of fun to be had when you try and fit as many words as you can within a three-minute song, but there is also a lot of fun in trying to get that message across in three words, or better yet when the music can overpower the words and convey something really pure and perfect that affects our psycho-emotional space.

  Saul Williams

  Song, Fun, Simple

  "Saul Williams: Explain My Heart Video Exclusive". Interview with John-Paul Pryor, www.dazeddigital.com. January 28, 2011.

• It was always important to me to be that kid who could rock the party as well as rock the English professor's mind.

  Saul Williams

  Party, Kids, Rocks

  "Saul Williams", www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 5, 2012.

• Vulnerability is power.

  Saul Williams

  Vulnerability

  "Saul Williams" by Liam Singer, pitchfork.com. September 26, 2004.

• 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.

  Saul Williams

  Reality, People, Done

  Source: www.motherjones.com