Adrian Younge Quotes

• I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up a spectrum of feeling. You're now allowed to approach the music from an audio visual perspective.

  Adrian Younge

  Thinking, Perspective, Feelings

  "Above the Line: An Interview with Adrian Younge". AllHipHop.com Interview, allhiphop.com. July 10, 2015.

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• To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot.

  Adrian Younge

  Fall, Years, Today

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• Blaxploitation films were black films targeting black people. They were films made to appeal to a culture in a way that was supposed to be unfiltered.

  Adrian Younge

  People, Black, Culture

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Hip-hop has permeated pop culture for decades. For a long time, though, it seemed to permeate it in a such a way that it never really got its just due. Now, hip-hop seems to be getting that recognition and is more widely accepted, which is great.

  Adrian Younge

  Long, Hip Hop, Culture

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• What really, really inspires me is that you don't see many black superheroes on television.

  Adrian Younge

  Superhero, Inspire, Black

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• When you're composing for somebody, that means you have a boss. You have to do what it takes to, at the end of the day, appease them.

  Adrian Younge

  Mean, Boss, The End Of The Day

  "Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge Turned the '2016 Black Experience' Into the 'Luke Cage' Soundtrack". Interview with Justin Davis, www.complex.com. October 5, 2016.

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• It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.

  Adrian Younge

  Hero, Kids, Mexican

  "Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge Turned the '2016 Black Experience' Into the 'Luke Cage' Soundtrack". Interview with Justin Davis, www.complex.com. October 5, 2016.

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• The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important to young Mexican kids to see a black hero.

  Adrian Younge

  Hero, Kids, People

  "Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge Turned the '2016 Black Experience' Into the 'Luke Cage' Soundtrack". Interview with Justin Davis, www.complex.com. October 5, 2016.

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• It's important to the world to see superheroes that are spread across our demographic.

  Adrian Younge

  Superhero, Important, World

  "Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Adrian Younge Turned the '2016 Black Experience' Into the 'Luke Cage' Soundtrack". Interview with Justin Davis, www.complex.com. October 5, 2016.

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• When you get above the line, you're above the line. So my thing is I just want to make music where I am always above that line.

  Adrian Younge

  Lines, Want

  "Above the Line: An Interview with Adrian Younge". AllHipHop.com Interview, allhiphop.com. July 10, 2015.

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• I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people care about the kind of music I'm making.

  Adrian Younge

  People, Trying, Care

  "Above the Line: An Interview with Adrian Younge". AllHipHop.com Interview, allhiphop.com. July 10, 2015.

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• When people score films, the job is to be visual. When people make music, it's about evoking feeling. It's great when you get both feelings and being out of their head.

  Adrian Younge

  Jobs, People, Feelings

  "Above the Line: An Interview with Adrian Younge". AllHipHop.com Interview, allhiphop.com. July 10, 2015.

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• I don't have any computers in my studio, it's all analog tape. All analog tape, all old equipment, I mean my mics are like from the 60's and early 70's, everything in there is old.

  Adrian Younge

  Mean, Tape, Computer

  Source: www.hiphopsite.com

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