Latest Pharoahe Monch Quotes from Interviews

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• The battle thing is very important in hip-hop, but at the same time, I want to sit down and have a beer and listen to Rakim.

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  Beer, Hip Hop, Important

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

• I mostly write to music, even though I know I sound free-form a lot. Then there are times when I'll have a concept and hold on to it until I come across the right music that makes a marriage.

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  Writing, Sound, Form

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

• The stuff I'm working on is quite dense. I'm seeing every four bars as a scene in a film.

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  Bars, Four, Stuff

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

• You have to understand the vehicle, the form that allows you to do what you do, and why that is.

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  Form, Vehicle

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

• I'm doing what's in my heart at the time.

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  Heart, My Heart

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

• Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really last.

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  Careers, Sound, Radio

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

• It mattered what someone did to allow you to have the forum to do what you're doing.

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  Forums

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

• Kids don't even realize what they're up against.

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  Kids, Realizing

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 1, 2011.

• There needs to be someone who can lead you in the right direction.

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  Needs, Right Direction

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

• There's a need for pop. There's a need for radio. There's also a need to understand the brilliance and the depth of jazz and soul - and what hip-hop can be at its most brilliant and what hip-hop can be at its most simplistic.

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  Hip Hop, Soul, Hips

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

• There are situations where I'm uncomfortable saying, "I'm a hip-hop artist." In some circles, the response is like, "Oh, OK, so... you have whores and your ties are shiny?"

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  Artist, Circles, Ties

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

• Unless somebody who's already eleven thousand times platinum is like, "We're ushering this project in," it's not really gonna pop commercially.

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  Projects, Eleven, Pops

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

• You feel pressured to do what you think the public wants, when in actuality the sales aren't reflecting what the radio is doing. Not in the least bit!

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  Thinking, Want, Radio

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

• When new artists come out and they're not being cosigned or some company doesn't have a stake in it, or someone's not getting paid under the table to produce the whole record or bring it to video, the artist really suffers.

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  Artist, Suffering, Video

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

• You've rarely got an artist that's not being chauffeured into the business by some huge-ass names.

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  Artist, Names, Ass

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

• Having the savvy to know what you want to say, how you want to say it, and what music you want to say it over comes with time spent and wisdom gained in a music career.

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  Careers, Want, Savvy

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.