Idea Quote by Melvin Van Peebles Download Open image “It wasn't really me who invented rap. I stole the idea from Aristide Bruant.” — Melvin Van Peebles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Idea Me Rap Really Who
You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time. — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
Rap music started because they were bored of other music so they created something really new. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so… — Ice T Copy Share Image
We loved that form of music. We're all huge rap fans, so we just incorporated it. — Charlie Benante Copy Share Image
People like to say, 'Ah, he just knows how to rap.' As if I didn't know my music. — Anuel AA Copy Share Image
I don't know how I started rapping. The first I did was at school. I tried writing one. I liked it. People started to… — YoungBoy Never Broke Again Copy Share Image
When I started rapping, I was like, I'ma change my name before I become famous. And that didn't happen. I didn't have time. — Rico Nasty Copy Share Image
I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I'm not a normal director. You can't look at me that way. What's kept me alive is my technical skill at doing other things. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Don't ask me something if you don't want to know. Because I will tell you. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
After 'Don't Play Us Cheap,' I got very busy with theater and Wall Street. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
The studios didn't really take independent films seriously, till 'Sweetback' was such a financial success. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I said to my kids, 'Learn the business of America if you want to be an artist in America. The rest of that stuff,… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry, I take great faith in… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
The idea with a collection is sort of to begin with a kind of bang. — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
When there's a firestorm going on around you, you have very little idea of what's next. — Richard Quest Copy Share Image
The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit. — Martha Roby Copy Share Image
You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by… — Douglas Kennedy Copy Share Image
When I was 12 years old, I went to Natchitoches, La.; it was summer vacation with my family. We visited a plantation, Melrose. And… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would have my very own school - no way. And I had no idea I'd… — Liang Chow Copy Share Image
