Top 17 Jerry Heller Quotes

I’ve probably represented almost every major artist in the world, either directly or peripherally, at one time or another.

I grew up in that era of Hendrix and Joplin and The Doors, and the Summer of Love and Haight-Ashbury, and even the Panthers. That was my era; that’s what I was into.

The more parents hate the music, the more their children will like it. It had been true with Elvis, and it had been true with the Rolling Stones. ‘Straight Outta Compton’ was music that parents could loathe with a passion. I knew we had a massive hit.

The music business and I were made for each other.

I was always excited about doing things with people that were ahead of their time, that were sort of out of sync with the rest of society.

N.W.A. were the first great rap audio documentarians of the problems in our inner cities.

I was always a champion of the minority, of the underdog.

I consider the most important period of my life, from March 3rd, 1987, I think it was, to March 26th, 1995: the day I met Eazy-E and the day he died. To me, that was the most important period of my life, of my career, and the part that I am most proud of.

My dad wasn’t a gangster, and he wasn’t a criminal, but he sure liked to rub padded shoulders with them.

I am what I am, but I’m not a thief. And I’m not scandalous.

One thing that N.W.A did, as Larry Flynt did before them, was to expand the boundaries of our reliance upon the good sense of the people to determine what’s right and what isn’t, what’s obscene and what isn’t, and what’s immoral and what isn’t.

I’m a child of the sixties. I grew up with a president who was a crook, who put us into the most unpopular war in history, who had no communication with people under thirty. I had seen the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Panthers and the Diggers; I understood what they were about.

I just loved Amy Winehouse. I would rather have managed her than anybody in the world. To me, it was like the first time I saw Janis Joplin.

Eazy was an exceptional human being. He was a visionary. He was very Machiavellian, he understood power and how to use it. He was a good-hearted guy, a good father, just an exemplary human being. I couldn’t be any prouder of him than if he had been my blood son.

Gangsta rap was the most important movement since the beginning of rock n’ roll.

N.W.A were the audio-documentarians of their time. They were trying to shock people with the violence of their language and the subjects they were talking about. The fact that they dressed in guerilla outfits like the Black Panthers made them shocking by their appearance as well.

There are two kinds of people in the entertainment industry: Those that close deals and those that don’t.