All Grandmaster Flash Quotes
- 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,… Back Two
- 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… Abandoned
- 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… Apart
- As an individual I was known as the DJ or the mixer. Dj
- 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… Art
- Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished. Become Real
- 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… Bedroom
- 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… Blending
- 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… Amongst
- I had love for Breakout; I had love for Bambaataa. I had love for Kool Herc. Bambaataa
- All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance… All
- 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… Clubs
- 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.… All
- Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public. Any
- 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.… Along
- 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… Certain
- For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me. Claiming
- 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… Compose
- 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… Definition
- 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… Anybody
- We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're… All
- We can even sing off key, but if it's produced properly it can be a hit. Even Sing
- What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking… Attitude