El-P Quotes

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• Why should I be sober when God is so clearly dusted out his mind?

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  Mind, Sober, Should

  Song: Smithereens, 2007

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• My whole mode is to do what I want to do and let people understand me through that.

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  People, Want, Understand Me

  Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. May 8, 2007.

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

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  Cancer, Struggle, Fighting

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• I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.

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  Trying, Delusions Of Grandeur, Evolve

  Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

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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

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• I believe that if you're an artist, it's like a gift. If you can do this for a living and you can be involved in it, it's something that you can't ignore. It's the chance for you to have a voice and create something from yourself.

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  Believe, Artist, Chance

  Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

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• There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.

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  Responsibility, Musician, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

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• 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

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• You've gotta be an outsider a little bit to shake yourself loose from the mill, the "machine." In order to even cut the space in your life to pursue what most people literally cannot afford a moment to pursue. So, yeah. I think that not only is that the role of the artist, but it might be a requirement.

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  Cutting, Artist, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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.

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  Fighting, Cutting, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Oh my god what am I doing with my life?

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• Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.

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  Years, People, Progress

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

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  People, Hopeful, Sentiments

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm a fan of some of the hyphy stuff. Hyphy has been going on a lot longer than the press has been recognizing it.

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  Fans, Stuff, Recognizing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The fact of the matter is, if you're not putting out stuff that people are feeling, then your record label doesn't mean a goddamn thing.

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  Mean, People, Feelings

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that people have been claiming hip-hop as being dead since the moment it started. I think there are people - and I can be included in that category sometimes - that get frustrated feeling like maybe the industry has handcuffed itself, or trained its artists to do or think about music in a way that classically hasn't led to the greatest records in hip-hop.

  El-P

  Artist, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I try to take a snapshot of who I am now, who I am becoming, as opposed to who I was when I was first starting to make records. I'm not trying to make boring adult music, but I try to make music more reflective of what matters to me now.

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  What Matters, Who I Am, Trying

  Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

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• I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of the human experience in some way.

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  Way, Attempting, Embarrassed

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the fly new beat. I can't sit still; I have no nostalgia. I don't have to have nostalgia.

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  Fashion, Growing Up, Hip Hop

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My problem is not to reinforce or destroy any ideas anyone might have about me, how I do what I do, what my intentions are, the way that I do it. My only job as far as I can see is to do the music that I want to do. All those other things are completely out of my control.

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  Jobs, Ideas, Want

  Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. May 8, 2007.

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• 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

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