Grandmaster Flash Quotes
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I developed the Clock Theory to help me time records; you know, spin the record back two revolutions or whatever and then play the break,…
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I went to junkyards, abandoned car lots. I asked supermarkets for the big jugs they put pig guts in, to make cabinets for my bass…
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I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to figure…
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As an individual I was known as the DJ or the mixer.
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But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and…
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Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished.
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Normal kids in their teens want to go and date girls and do mischievous things, your hormones are jumping around, but I stayed in my…
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The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and…
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We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each…
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I had love for Breakout; I had love for Bambaataa. I had love for Kool Herc.
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All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance…
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Disco B still rolls with me now. He's still doing his thing. He does clubs in different places. He was very instrumental in helping me…
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Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music.…
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Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public.
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For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down.…
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For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and…
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For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me.
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I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from…
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I think what's happening here is, there's a group or maybe one person who is saying this is gonna be the definition and this is…
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So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is not Hip Hop…
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