Amount Quote by Aloe Blacc

You can feel a lot of things, and that's okay. Channel that into your passion.

— Aloe Blacc

We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't…

— Aloe Blacc

In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.

— Aloe Blacc

Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind of tell…

— Aloe Blacc

I continue to write songs that are topically related to social, political and economic issues of our time, but I also recognize that onstage,…

— Aloe Blacc

Life is a game and love is the prize. So wake me when its all over, when I'm wiser and I'm older.

— Aloe Blacc

I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social…

— Aloe Blacc

Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they…

— Aloe Blacc

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

— Aloe Blacc

People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth…

— Aloe Blacc

When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all…

— Aloe Blacc

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

— Aloe Blacc