Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.
I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images.
When everything is coming your way, you're probably in the wrong lane.
I'm glad Reagan is president. Of course, I'm a professional comedian.
It's okay to laugh in the bedroom so long as you don't point.
Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.
For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.
Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.
We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when he looks back, with the impatience of reason, on a music stronger than death.
They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg’s early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.
Orpheus never liked words. He had his music. He would get a funny look on his face and I would say what are you thinking about and he would always be thinking about music.
With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.
I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.
It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.
I'd say music runs in my blood. My parents are exceptionally talented singers, so even before I was born, it was a known fact to them that I'd become a singer. Thanks to my genes, I started off at the age of three and since then, music has meant ever...
I started playing guitar when I was 12 and probably from that age knew that I wanted to make music and make my own music. Playing with other bands like the Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens was more like an apprenticeship for me than anything.
Like most musicians, I'm good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate even the music we will be doing in the future, let alone what we've done in the past.
