Public Enemies Quotes - Page 2

• I grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it was like in the '60s - I wasn't alive then - so the Mayer Hawthorne sound is taking what I can learn from the classics, and blending it with my hip-hop DJ and producer background and punk-rock bands that I played in as a kid.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Kids, Rocks, 80s And 90s

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• Some references are more important than others. Like the metal stuff. Some people like Motley Crue and some people didn't listen to them at all. So that's why there's New Order and The New Replacements and David Bowie and Public Enemy.

  Steve Pink

  Order, People, Enemy

  Source: collider.com

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• Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.

  Janelle Monae

  Enemy, Wonder, Hills

  "Hot Tracks: Janelle Monáe". Interview With Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. September 2012.

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• I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Song, Rap, Writing

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• The hip-hop that I really connected with was Public Enemy, KRS-One, Ice Cube, and N.W.A. That late '80s and early '90s era. The beginning of gangster rap and the beginning of politically conscious rap. I had a very immature, adolescent feeling of, "Wow, I can really connect with these people through the stories they're telling in this music."

  Jess Row

  Rap, Ice, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Madonna. Prince. Bruce Springsteen. Fleetwood Mac. David Bowie. Public Enemy. Nirvana.

  Moby

  Successful, Being Real, Enemy

  "David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, ew.com. January 11, 2016.

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• Public Enemy started out as a benchmark in rap music in the mid-1980s. We felt there was a need to actually progress the music and say something because we were slightly older than the demographic of rap artists at the time. It was a time of heightened rightwing politics, so the climate dictated the direction of the group.

  Chuck D

  Rap, Artist, Enemy

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.

  Noel Gallagher

  Rap, People, Hip Hop

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• I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldn't believe it. It was amazing, and I've always loved hip-hop.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Believe, Hip Hop, Enemy

  "Joaquin Phoenix Interview – He talks about Quitting Acting to Focus on Music – Part 1" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 3, 2009.

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• Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.

  William Congreve

  Honor, Enemy, Half

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• In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.

  Hedda Hopper

  Gratitude, Numbers, Enemy

  Hedda Hopper (2017). “From Under My Hat”, p.49, Graymalkin Media

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• Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, Id be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that thats the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because Ive always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

  Flavor Flav

  Rap, Hype, Enemy

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• The Fed is the biggest enemy of this economy. In fact, Ben Bernanke, as far as I'm concerned, he's public enemy No. 1. We're never going to have a recovery while this guy's in charge.

  Peter Schiff

  Recovery, Guy, Enemy

  FaceBook post by Peter Schiff from Mar 27, 2012

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• The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often assume the appearance and produce the effects of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy. If Alaric himself had been introduced into the council of Ravenna, he would probably have advised the same measures which were actually pursued by the ministers of Honorius.

  Edward Gibbon

  Government, History, Enemy

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.563, Modern Library

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• I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the... they created their whole own world of music.

  Rick Rubin

  Squad, Enemy, Way

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.

  Chuck D

  Thinking, Grace, Enemy

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• I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.

  Chris Ofili

  Hip Hop, Enemy, Listening

  "Chris Ofili: 'I wander deep into the forest - where it's scary'" by Mark Hudson, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 25, 2010.

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• Like any family, like any group - the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, EPMD, Public Enemy - they've had bumps in the road. I just think that because A Tribe Called Quest is so precious to fans, they were concerned about unveiling some of those things.

  Michael Rapaport

  Thinking, Enemy, Groups

  "Michael Rapaport explains Q-Tip's beef with his A Tribe Called Quest documentary" by Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. January 17, 2011.

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• I listen to a variety of stuff on my iPod: Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Public Enemy, Foo Fighters, anything that gets my adrenalin flowing.

  Chris Hoy

  Brother, Ipods, Enemy

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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