What really, really inspires me is that you don't see many black superheroes on television. — Adrian Younge Black Copy Share Image
I always feel like young people are more emotionally in tune with new and timeless music. — Adrian Younge Emotionally 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
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
'Luke Cage' is a gift. There's so many different ways you can look at it. — Adrian Younge Cage 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
It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal. — Adrian Younge Black 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 was really raised on hip-hop, and hip-hop introduced me basically to all the music I listen to now. — Adrian Younge Basically 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 Come 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 Appeals 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
My music sounds different because the techniques are archaic, seeing as most people only record digitally. — Adrian Younge Archaic Copy Share Image
The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important… — Adrian Younge Answers Copy Share Image
When people score films, the job is to be visual. When people make music, it's about evoking feeling. It's great when you… — Adrian Younge Cinema 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
People like RZA and DJ Premier are really on the balcony to scope my musical theories. They also help me focus on… — Adrian Younge Amazing 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 Everything 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
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 Analog Copy Share Image
I try to find a vocalist that I don't have to make better. I try to find a vocalist that can make… — Adrian Younge Find Copy Share Image
When people make the educated argument that things should go back, it's more like going back to a feeling they had when… — Adrian Younge Argument Copy Share Image
I basically wake up at five in the morning and grab coffee and just get to the studio. And I have a… — Adrian Younge Coffee Copy Share Image
It's important to the world to see superheroes that are spread across our demographic. — Adrian Younge Comic Copy Share Image
When Curtis Mayfield made 'Super Fly,' he used the lyric to make a statement. — Adrian Younge Fly 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 you're composing for somebody, that means you have a boss. You have to do what it takes to, at the end… — Adrian Younge Appease 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 Line 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
To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot. — Adrian Younge Classic Copy Share Image
I like golden-era hip-hop because they were recording on a 2-inch tape. There was dirty, raw sampling. It's nasty. It has a… — Adrian Younge Dirty Copy Share Image
As a freelance artist, you have to please somebody instead of just making music. But when the employer trusts and leans on… — Adrian Younge Art Copy Share Image
To me, recording with live instruments and tape takes things back to an older sound that I like but that's still fresh. — Adrian Younge Back Copy Share Image
I started buying ill, obscure records, and then I saw Portishead and Air live, and my mouth was on the ground. — Adrian Younge Air Copy Share Image
I don't like to focus on just hip-hop because with hip-hop, I can only do so much; with a vocalist, I can… — Adrian Younge Focus Copy Share Image
