Chuck D Quotes

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• Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.
• I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.
• I like Rick Ross as a person. I like Jay-Z and Kanye West as people. But I hate the companies that they record for.
• I think the Internet was the saving grace for Public Enemy. Before that, travelling the world saved Public Enemy.
• I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.
• I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.
• I totally hate when somebody takes a classic and desecrates it. I like Jimmy Page and P. Diddy, but what they did to 'Kashmir' was…
• I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.
• I'm recording freely, and if I make a song, I release it immediately, so I'm more likely to believe in one song at a time…
• I've signed with major labels, and I haven't had any control over the money.
• Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay…
• My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.
• My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
• Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound.
• People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.
• Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.
• Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.
• Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.
• The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.
• You can't master time, but you have to work your hardest to manage it.

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