Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion. — El-P Copy Share Image
I am trying to change hip-hop music because I do feel there are places people can go with production and the structure… — El-P Copy Share Image
I'm not really one of these people who's been known for particularly hopeful sentiments. — El-P Copy Share Image
I had a boom box with a dual cassette deck and a mic, so I used to make pause tapes. I think… — El-P Copy Share Image
There are two types of people, two types of performers: Performers who know how to keep a show going literally when the… — El-P Copy Share Image
I wanted people to know that I was making what I was making just on a sampler, basically. — El-P Copy Share Image
There's a segment of this world, there's a mind state that's permeated the intellectual consciousness of this world that comes from a… — El-P Copy Share Image
The people who talk the most about God are people who are the least like God. — El-P Copy Share Image
When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is… — El-P Copy Share Image
There's a lot of pretense out there. It can be exhausting. When people see something genuine, even if it's something as simple… — El-P Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily think the way people do, but that's not my problem. My problem is not to reinforce or destroy any… — El-P Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is, if you're not putting out stuff that people are feeling, then your record label doesn't mean… — El-P Copy Share Image
My whole mode is to do what I want to do and let people understand me through that. — El-P Copy Share Image
Maybe my great struggle, and it's probably not anything different from too many other people, but it certainly is what drives the… — El-P Copy Share Image
The only thing an artist is useful for, and the only reason why we don't just line 'em up against the wall… — El-P Copy Share Image
You've gotta be an outsider a little bit to shake yourself loose from the mill, the "machine." In order to even cut… — El-P Copy Share Image
I hope that people take away hope, maybe not in an obvious sense, but in the form of hearing somebody who's genuinely… — El-P Copy Share Image
Music can feel empowering, or it can give a natural emotional voice to something people can't express. This is why it's beautiful. — El-P Copy Share Image
At the core of everything I do, is not my ambition but my desire to make music. Somewhere along the line I… — El-P Copy Share Image
My New York, the one I identify with as a kid, has greatly changed. And I'm sure the people who were adults… — El-P Copy Share Image
If you ask me what people want from me, they would probably just want me to be true to what I'm doing. — El-P Copy Share Image
A lot of people thought 'Funcrusher' was super dark and hopeless, and I don't think it was hopeless in any way. — El-P Copy Share Image
When we're putting out records that people are responding to, it's amazing. And it's obviously what we shoot for every time. It's… — El-P Copy Share Image
I think that people have been claiming hip-hop as being dead since the moment it started. — El-P Copy Share Image
People are very afraid. In my country, you had a corrupt party who sabotaged an amazing candidate Bernie Sanders who was stronger… — El-P Copy Share Image
I'm not mad at digital media at all; I just see the importance and beauty of physical media. — El-P Copy Share Image
Standing up for what you believe is right, as well as standing up for what you believe is funny, standing up for what you… — El-P Copy Share Image
For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the… — El-P Copy Share Image
Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion. — El-P Copy Share Image
Any issue and any problem, no matter what height you look at it from, no matter how much you extend past the first fractal,… — El-P Copy Share Image
I really don't believe in going too far out of your way to hunt down somebody to do a song. — El-P Copy Share Image
The last Company Flow reunion show in New York City was pretty insane. Everybody knew all the words to every song; everybody had smiles… — El-P Copy Share Image
At a young age, I really wanted to make music and make my own sort of thing. I'm sure if it wasn't music, it… — El-P Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I thought it was a good decision to put Def Jux on hold is that it's a hell of… — El-P Copy Share Image
I am trying to change hip-hop music because I do feel there are places people can go with production and the structure of an… — El-P Copy Share Image
I'm not really one of these people who's been known for particularly hopeful sentiments. — El-P Copy Share Image
