What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
What I like about music is that you make a song, you've got your ideas in it, and people make that song… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
The album 'Party Music' is a beautiful album, and people need to hear it. — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Either I'm really into the organizing, or I'm really into the music. As I've been going, I've been able to figure out… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I've been involved in a lot of different kinds of projects. I've been on straight hip hop tours. I've been on underground… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I can run the gamut with beats that no one else would think of. I'm not a trained musician, so I focus… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Music is first for me. How the music makes me feel, it's like energy. It has to match my life. What's happening… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
People want things that address their everyday reality, and that goes for stuff that isn't political - with singer-songwriter music, people want… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
It's nice to be recognized for what you do, but that doesn't satisfy what I wanted out of this music, which is… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I just look at music as a retreat from organizing. It's like a tug-of-war with me. Music can be effective, but it's… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I want my music to be not only representative of other people's lives but also contributing something to the struggle that people… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I have tried to write songs quickly that get scrapped. I've also taken a long time on songs that get scrapped because… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Trying to get somebody to read your script and you're a musician? That's the last person whose script you're gonna read! — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I think it's important for us not just to edit the culture that capitalism creates but to create the material basis for a culture… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do is make music that people relate to, that talks about ideas that are personal but also make that connection… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
I thought my parents were always having card parties - and they were - but they were actually also having meetings to organize people.… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
Going to school in San Francisco, you're not going to meet as many people that are making films as you would if you went… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
What I like about music is that you make a song, you've got your ideas in it, and people make that song part of… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
What first got me involved in politics was being 14, and a youth organizer comes to my house with a van full of 14… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
A lot of organizers tell me that while they are making signs or doing whatever they do, they are listening to the Coup. — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
When we were doing shows in the mid-'90s, the audiences were 95% black. What's happened now is the gentrification of hip-hop. A lot of… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
You make art, you make it from what you know, and that's the best way to make art. You get lost in the details… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
