Saul Williams Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.

  Saul Williams

  Song, Chairs, Legislation

  "Hip-hop's poet laureate speaks out". Interview with Tyson Wheatley, www.cnn.com. January 17, 2005.

• I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights movement wouldn't have the same resonance without the songs from everyone from Pete Seeger to Odetta to James Brown.

  Saul Williams

  Song, Art, Past

  Source: www.mtv.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.

• 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.

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