El-P Quotes

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• Why should I be sober when God is so clearly dusted out his mind?
• So inane-I cause Colon Blow pain
• I try to take a snapshot of who I am now, who I am becoming, as opposed to who I was when I was first…
• I believe that if you're an artist, it's like a gift. If you can do this for a living and you can be involved in…
• There are two types of people, two types of performers: Performers who know how to keep a show going literally when the power is gone…
• There's nothing worse than being shackled by some miniscule sort of technology you have onstage, and I think your mettle is going to get tested…
• I'm a pretty intense person. And I don't know if intense is fun. I put myself through the wringer. That's just how I work.
• Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good.
• I've never had a huge collection of records; I've never been a beat digga.
• My favorite era of hip-hop was between '85-'89. That was the era that got me to love hip-hop.
• At the core of everything I do, is not my ambition but my desire to make music. Somewhere along the line I stumbled onto something…
• The emergence of the independent hip-hop scene has replaced what we called the "underground scene". It's what the underground scene has evolved into: actual businesses.
• I think that people have been claiming hip-hop as being dead since the moment it started. I think there are people - and I can…
• There is a difference these days between who's making the music and buying the music, in terms of the way that they think, grew up,…
• That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
• I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.
• I'm not trying to change the face of hip-hop music. I'm trying to make my records and always take the next step for me.
• There are all the offsprings of people who are influenced by punk. It sounds completely different - but it's still rock 'n' roll. When hip-hop…
• 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 fly…
• My problem is not to reinforce or destroy any ideas anyone might have about me, how I do what I do, what my intentions are,…

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