I always feel like young people are more emotionally in tune with new and timeless music. — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
What really, really inspires me is that you don't see many black superheroes on television. — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
It's the ownership of what's off that's the beauty in art. Its not about being exactly perfect. — Adrian Younge Art Copy Share Image
To me, the Ennio Morricone kind of sound is a derivative of soul music. — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
When I did 'Venice Dawn,' there were times where people would cry after listening to it. — Adrian Younge Cry Copy Share Image
I grew up, and I'm getting the chance to make music with the people I idolized. — Adrian Younge Chance Copy Share Image
'Luke Cage' is a gift. There's so many different ways you can look at it. — Adrian Younge Cage Copy Share Image
I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people… — Adrian Younge Care Copy Share Image
I love the song 'Picasso Baby,' and I think the performance art piece was brilliant. I love that fact that Jay Z… — Adrian Younge Art Copy Share Image
Blaxploitation films were black films targeting black people. They were films made to appeal to a culture in a way that was… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
Luke Cage is seen in 'Jessica Jones,' but he doesn't really come into his own until the 'Luke Cage' series. That's when… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
I always compare myself to what I did last, so I've got to try and beat what I did last. I'm always… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
I was really raised on hip-hop, and hip-hop introduced me basically to all the music I listen to now. — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
When you get older, you try to get what you wanted as a kid. Maybe you wanted an arcade in your house… — Adrian Younge Arcade Copy Share Image
I'm the black dude that loves old black culture. I also love old white culture. I just love history, but I'm the… — Adrian Younge Black culture Copy Share Image
I know all my different formulas to get certain sounds. I've been doing this so long that I don't experiment anymore. Or… — Adrian Younge Change Copy Share Image
Like with me, like around '97, for Christmas my parents bought me an MPC 2000 sampler and a little eight-track cassette recorder.… — Adrian Younge Christmas Copy Share Image
I can't do too much musical movement with a lot of MC's, because they don't know how to follow me. But with… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
I don't do anything digital. Everything is analog, and that's a limitation for me. However, in my world, it's not a limitation… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
I always say to people that I left hip-hop in '97, meaning that I departed from listening to predominately hip-hop and just… — Adrian Younge Change Copy Share Image
A lot of people record on a laptop and use plug-ins, which might be OK for the kind of music that they're… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a concept is needed to spark myself and the vocalist; sometimes a concept isn't necessary for that spark. It all depends… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has permeated pop culture for decades. For a long time, though, it seemed to permeate it in a such a way… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
I want listeners to feel as though they went through an experience. — Adrian Younge Experience Copy Share Image
My studio is fully analog. There's nothing modern. There's not even a computer in my studio. — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
Change the sound. Make people rethink what they're doing. That's what I really wanna do. — Adrian Younge Change Copy Share Image
When Curtis Mayfield made 'Super Fly,' he used the lyric to make a statement. — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
It's important to the world to see superheroes that are spread across our demographic. — Adrian Younge Comic Copy Share Image
It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal. — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
I have a J.D., but I'm not a practicing attorney as far as entertainment law goes. — Adrian Younge Attorney Copy Share Image
Generally, as a composer, it's perceived as an employer-employee relationship. — Adrian Younge Composer Copy Share Image
A lot of Ennio Morricone's music is just - it's very soulful, very cinematic, and very psychedelic. — Adrian Younge Cinematic Copy Share Image
To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot. — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
When you get above the line, you're above the line. So my thing is I just want to make music where I… — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
I've always been a big fan of Kendrick's, but it's different when you hear him on your own production. — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
