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You Quotes by Talib Kweli
- I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you…
- Honestly, you have to take care of yourself. That's probably something I have learned on the road.
- You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you…
- I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of…
- The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way…
- Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never…
- And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.
- But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
- Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
- You gotta eat right, you gotta have healthy habits, you know, and balance out your decadence with a healthy lifestyle during the day.
- You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any…
- You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in…
- I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not…
- If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't…
- My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot…
- My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of…
- My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York University. So he listened to,…
- So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're…
- What's more condescending and corny than someone telling you how much more money they have than you and telling you basically, 'I don't care about…
- You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.
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