Latest El-P Quotes from Interviews

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• There's something in the German language that makes you feel like you're getting a hug and a backstab at the same time.

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  Hug, Language, Like You

• I am trying to change hip-hop music because I do feel there are places people can go with production and the structure of an album that they haven't gone yet. But, like I said, I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.

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  People, Bored, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I wanted people to know that I was making what I was making just on a sampler, basically.

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  People

  Source: pitchfork.com

• We're not steadfast about not repeating mistakes.

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  Mistake

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good. Sometimes it's to make you feel amped, or angry, or nervous. I was listening to a lot of Public Enemy when I made the record.

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  Thinking, Feel Good, Listening

  Source: pitchfork.com

• If you are a good writer you use your life experience to do something different than someone who is 20-years-old can do. That is where you get your power. That is our power as a group. I am not trying to make the same music I made 10 years ago.

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  Trying, Different, Life Experience

  Source: thequietus.com

• The advancement of style is the cornerstone of hip hop. There is no correct or conservative way to make rap music. Rap is and must remain the answer, the alternative, to the conservative approach of making music.

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  Rap, Hip Hop, Style

  Source: thequietus.com

• I like being a rapper and cursing and getting paid. But at some point I feel like I'm going to be an old angry ass man, who is going to run the school board or city council.

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  Running, School, Men

  Source: thequietus.com

• I think Trump is indicative of a larger problem. It existed way before him, it is our generation's issue that all over the world people are and have been suffering from despotic power figures who want nothing more to control than help the people they claim to represent. The difference being is a lot of people had not been paying much attention prior because it wasn't directly impacting them.

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  Thinking, People, Suffering

  Source: thequietus.com

• People are very afraid. In my country, you had a corrupt party who sabotaged an amazing candidate Bernie Sanders who was stronger than the other. Had Sanders faced Trump even more young people - from black millennials to the gay and lesbian community - would have voted because he represented them at his core. Fear drove the American vote, because if you're choosing from two devils like Hillary and Trump then you're more likely to end up picking the one who is cooler and makes you laugh.

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  Country, Party, Gay

  Source: thequietus.com

• Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.

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  Thinking, Childhood, Fantasy

  Source: pitchfork.com

• You can't turn back technology and you can't turn back authoritarianism. You can't have one hand in the dirt and one hand in the crystal clear water and say that you're clean. That's just the way it is.

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  Technology, Hands, Water

  Source: www.complex.com

• I think you get to a certain point in your life and where you grew up stops reminding you of when you grew up. Everything changes, everything metamorphosizes.

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  Thinking, Things Change, Grew Up

  Source: www.complex.com

• My relationship to Brooklyn is probably the relationship that any 40-year-old man has to his hometown, which is that this is where I live, this what I know, yet it's different, it's changed. My fascination with the city has maybe subsided and now it's just where I'm from, where I live.

  El-P

  Men, Years, Cities

  Source: www.complex.com

• I am making art. It's not a job that you've gotta show up to and fill in your slot. This is a dream come true. You get the opportunity to say something, to make a piece of art and hang it on the wall forever. Sometimes you're gonna have to take your time.

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  Dream, Art, Jobs

  Source: www.complex.com

• No doubt, there are times when I'm like "We have all gotten really used to saying whatever the f - k we want to say," and it's something that I really take seriously, whatever that may be.

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  Doubt, May, Want

  Source: www.billboard.com

• If you ask me what people want from me, they would probably just want me to be true to what I'm doing.

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  People, Want, Being True

  Source: www.billboard.com

• I hope that people take away hope, maybe not in an obvious sense, but in the form of hearing somebody who's genuinely fighting to stay above water. And in that fight, there's hope. In that fight, maybe there's positivity.

  El-P

  Fighting, Positivity, People

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• There's a segment of this world, there's a mind state that's permeated the intellectual consciousness of this world that comes from a certain type of people that looks at me and you and your average individual as a problem - like a blight on an otherwise potential paradise, something that needs to be cured.

  El-P

  Average, People, Intellectual

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I'm not really one of these people who's been known for particularly hopeful sentiments.

  El-P

  People, Hopeful, Sentiments

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.

  El-P

  Cancer, Struggle, Fighting

• I do these records. All of these ideas that I have, that I put out there, that inspire me to write, are a purging in a lot of ways. I have to expel them in order for myself to walk around and actually smile and be a regular, or a living, person.

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  Writing, Order, Ideas

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 6, 2012.

• Trying to separate myself from my instincts of pessimism and cut out and define what it is that I really do love, what I'm here to be, why I'm here, and what I think is worth being alive for and fighting for. And those things change, but I think that that's something I am always chasing.

  El-P

  Fighting, Cutting, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Any issue and any problem, no matter what height you look at it from, no matter how much you extend past the first fractal, it's still a fractal of something that emanates from within your consciousness - from within the human consciousness. And it'll move on and manifest itself externally, and then those are what we pick up as societal ills. But all these battles we're fighting are internal. For me, it's reconciling hope with dread and trying to cut out some place in my mind where my heart can be protected a little bit.

  El-P

  Moving, Heart, Fighting

• Maybe my great struggle, and it's probably not anything different from too many other people, but it certainly is what drives the music, is a hugely internal one.

  El-P

  Struggle, People, Different

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 6, 2012.