If you empty, you can be filled up with anything. It could be water or it could be gasoline. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
It's not about what you get out but what you put into hip hop as a genre. — Chuck D Genre Copy Share Image
The real thing is the heart, you know the heart shouldn't be covered with concrete. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Money is created by a machine... but you can't really create respect with a machine. — Chuck D Computers Copy Share Image
These days you can't see who's in cahoots, Cause now the KKK wears three-piece suits. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
You know, I've written many of my songs while driving - which is against the law in many cases. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I like to drive and I like to travel. When I drive on the open road, it's like sometimes the car turns… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Getting on the road and driving along a road at night, or even in the daytime and seeing the oceans or whatever,… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged,… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I always tell people that I was fortunate I was able to come in with a group of men. We didn't come… — Chuck D Boys Copy Share Image
The Internet is one area that I have used pretty effectively to break free of corporate control. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy. — Chuck D Enemy Copy Share Image
My thing is, the older you get you gotta stand up for what you believe in, and keep bashin' away. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
If you have no soul you can gut it out. You know, like a marionette, you'll just follow what seems to actually… — Chuck D Giving Copy Share Image
You should be a person inside the world with knowledge of your terrain. And if you lock yourself into the 2,000-by-3,000-square-mile, lower-48… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as essential as… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I'm envious of the way that electronic dance music has organised itself. It has been able to understand what it ain't rather… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing.… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
You can actually take your pain and processes it into some kind of form of art. So I mean, I've easily always… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I believe that, artistically and culturally, the free radio air should be able to support local artists of whatever genre. Play 40… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
It ain't this big I, little You. Music is to be shared. Music is not a hustle. [Hip hop's become] cultural stripmining… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
When music turned into being like candy - what people don't realize is, yes it's candy, but candy has long-term effects if… — Chuck D Candy Copy Share Image
We were coming out of the black community with this thing called rap music, which was basically black men yelling at the… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
I think the problem for the future generations is a lot of people ain't takin' the time to look for galvanizing artists… — Chuck D Art Copy Share Image
The best American is one who considers themselves as a citizen of the world. — Chuck D America Copy Share Image
I have to be conscious of what I'm sayin' because people are gonna come at me about this sh*t. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
DJ culture always made us aware that the best records were going to come from the small shops — Chuck D Culture Copy Share Image
I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
![“It ain't this big I, little You. Music is to be shared. Music is not a hustle. [Hip hop's become] cultural stripmining [by the major labels]. Some people get into this music to make a killing but music is a way to make a living.” quote by Chuck D](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/86d/chuck-d-2065_bigs_it-ain-t-this-big-i-little-you-music-is_1548865.png)
