Saul Williams Quotes
- Dying is something you have no control over. Why waste your life being afraid of it?
- Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that…
- Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers,…
- I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
- I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.
- I didn't ever want to make a rap album. I considered it too limiting. Now that's exactly what I've gone and done
- Hip-hop is too young to put a definition on it
- I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK
- The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence
- I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance
- I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than…
- We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there
- Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence
- The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that…
- More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry
- Two autumns and I have not changed enough.
- Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.
- Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave a message on…
- The hero is the person who's afraid to run away.
- There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat…