Hops Quotes - Page 19

• I was in a Led Zeppelin cover band in high school, and my highlight was playing "Misty Mountain Hop" at a coffee house in Wayne, Pennsylvania. I wasn't allowed to play any instruments; I could only be the singer because I was a girl.

  Victoria Legrand

  Girl, Coffee, School

  "Beach House". Interview With Brian Howe, pitchfork.com. March 17, 2008.

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• My influences are vast and varied. I was into classic rock at the same time that I was into hip-hop. It was just that hip-hop was the first music that I got really really into. Rock was right on its tail.

  Paul Banks

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Tails

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was into hip-hop when I was a teenager. Then I started to look for samples, and I started a long Hendrix period - I liked the drums and the beats.

  Gustav Ejstes

  Teenager, Long, Hip Hop

  "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

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• All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.

  Gustav Ejstes

  Teenage, Years, Hip Hop

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Hip-hop is interesting, but American pop music doesn't have the kind of diversity that the UK does.

  Casey Spooner

  Diversity, Interesting, Hip Hop

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• That was my challenge then, how to make scratching still fun for someone who didn't necessarily come to hear that. It was fun to develop that technique. And now in dance music - I'm still a hip-hop guy at heart, but I love dance music.

  A-Trak

  Fun, Heart, Hip Hop

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I'm still a hip-hop producer. I never put a label on what I can do as a producer or a DJ.

  A-Trak

  Hip Hop, Labels, Hips

  Source: www.gq.com

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• It's such a phenomenon for a hip-hop artist to fully embrace his Christian roots and his faith. And that becomes something that people almost need you to justify.

  LeCrae

  Christian, Artist, Roots

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's like sweat, on people's backs.

  T. J. Miller

  Sweat, People, Hip Hop

  "Because T.J. Miller is a Funny Functioning Drunk". Interview with Amos Barshad, www.gq.com. July 27, 2011.

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• I want to learn something from my atheistic brothers and sisters, even though I'm a Christian. I want to learn something from my right-wing brothers and sisters, even though I'm a progressive. I want to learn something from the elderly, even though I'm middle-aged or tilting toward the elderly. I want to learn especially something from the youth. That's why I spend a lot of time in hip-hop studios.

  Cornel West

  Christian, Brother, Wings

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

  Cornel West

  Rap, Hip Hop, Culture

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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• There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.

  Cornel West

  Artist, Numbers, Hip Hop

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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• I wanted to do is kind of invoke that and then dive into that kind of repetition as a DJ thing because DJing you hear beats, like "boom, boom, boom, bap, bap." You know hip hop, house, techno. So how do you translate between those electronic motifs and the motifs of the landscape itself? That is what I wanted to go for.

  DJ Spooky

  House, Hip Hop, Landscape

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The key question facing those of us working in the media (old and new) is whether we embrace and adapt to the radical changes brought about by the Internet or pretend that we can somehow hop into a journalistic Way Back Machine and return to a past that no longer exists and can't be resurrected. There is no question that, as the industry moves forward and we figure out the new rules of the road, there will be - and needs to be - a great deal of experimentation with new revenue models.

  Arianna Huffington

  Moving, Past, Keys

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• Well I listened to mostly rock music, and I felt like hip hop was like an extension of rock music when it was done well. So energetically, again I felt like it was in line with punk rock and maybe hard rock, more than it was in line with R&B, which I never really liked.

  Rick Rubin

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Hip-hop to me right now is really easy listening. It's very easy listening, like there's nothing abrasive about it. There's no album that I put in my car that makes me roll down the windows - all the windows - and ride past the club line three times before I get out the car.

  Pusha T

  Past, Car, Hip Hop

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The fundamentals of hip-hop still play an important role, cause it's about those similes, those metaphors, those parallels. And to some people it's just about, "Man, I'm really relating to the lifestyle."

  Pusha T

  Men, Play, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Whitney Houston, one of my biggest inspirations, also had that same mindset because her songs vary from R&B, hip hop, pop, and gospel.

  Heather Headley

  Song, Inspiration, Hip Hop

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• People also knew me for putting people up to hip-hop, so people knew I was heavy into hip-hop. But as for cyphers and stuff in high school, I would never get on it because I was too shy. That's pretty much what I was doing.

  Ryan Montgomery

  School, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I realize I look very hip hop but I'm really more emo with a definite Brazilian flavor.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Emo, Hip Hop, Hips

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. May 21, 2007.

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• Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes.

  Erik Parker

  Art, Strong, People

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• Older generations can sometimes look down on today's hip hop but I refuse that mindset. I remember how hurt I was when older people told me that Run-D.M.C. was jungle music or that it was not music at all. Or that LL Cool J was not art.

  Erik Parker

  Running, Art, Hurt

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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• Man, I feel like hip-hop is - first of all, not even only with just GOOD Music, I gotta say - I think hip-hop is still alive in a strong way, man. I feel really enthused about hip-hop.

  Common

  Strong, Men, Thinking

  "A Chat with Common Interview: Adimu Colon". Interview with Adimu Colon, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta have the words that provide life.

  Chuck D

  Mean, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• R&B is everything. Hip Hop, Soul, Gospel and Classical Blues are everything. All of that makes sense in BJ The Chicago Kid and what we do.

  B.J. The Chicago Kid

  Kids, Hip Hop, Soul

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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