Being honest Quote by Immortal Technique

Most of my friends are from the music scene.

— Jim Sturgess

A lot of people, musically anyway, have realized that they can do it, and there's an audience for it at least in their own…

— David Byrne

I meet people every single day who have heard the music and incorporated it into their lives. I feel like I have a tribe…

— Jason Mraz

I've always done music with so-called thug- or gangster-type lyricists. I've always been associated with that because I'm from the West Coast.

— Madlib

Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poetry and the comedic trash talk of 'the…

— Quincy Jones

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did -…

— Bobby Short

The thing with me is, I'm from a rap background so I'm not really a traditional singer in that sense.

— Negash Ali

I experienced Hip-Hop first-hand in the Bronx with the boys in New York; people like the Rock Steady Crew and The Dynamic Rockers, I…

— Goldie

I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselves to go at it and have a good time. I…

— Ricky Martin

Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you…

— David Byrne

I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC.

— Josh Peck

Over the years I've met quite a few big rappers. Then it exploded with 50 Cent, and I did a book with him. It's…

— Robert Greene