Words matter. These are the best Ali Shaheed Muhammad Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I believe in a ‘give us this day our daily bread’ sort of thing. And what I draw from that is, I try not to stock my refrigerator for groceries for the week, cause I might not live to see the full week.
That’s the beautiful thing about being an artist, is you can take risks and take chances and hopefully be secure enough to just keep going with it if you fall flat on your face.
Nothing new is on the earth right now. Technology, the things that we’re discovering, it’s been sitting here just waiting for someone to brush it off and go, ‘Oh, let me read that. Let me see how I can use this information.’ And it doesn’t matter if it’s from a tech perspective or a philosophical perspective.
Our records are commodities. We’re looking to make a sale. The radio stations are looking to get the advertising dollars. The end.
I’m a very good listener. I think that’s one of the things that makes me a good producer. But it’s a challenge for me because my custom is to listen and absorb what someone is saying and take it in, and not necessarily comment.
If you allow yourself to be closed, especially to a younger generation, then that’s death. That’s instant death.
The DJ still has the relationship with the people, I believe. I don’t know to call the DJ ‘the ambassadors’ or what, but we still are connecting the dots, getting the good stuff and passing it on to the people. DJs still have relevance, even with the technology that elevates the DJ beyond being a selector.
Corporations always are controlling things, and we have the ability every day to do something about that. Every day.
Because I express myself through the music, I want to be responsible in that expression and how it carries on well after I’m here. But that’s just me.
Anything in this life that goes against love, we all should fight it.
I keep saying if I ever get a good amount of quiet time that I want to learn to play cello. It’s a very warm instrument. The tone of the cello and the movement – I don’t know what is; I love it so much.
Music is an important thing of energy. And there are a lot of wonderful aspects that come with it and vibrations, the physical vibrations, the movement of notes through an instrument and creating a wave that resonates into our spirit.
Here in America, our use of time is not harmonious with humanity’s better spirit.
Kanye West, I love you. You might not have known, but I have said in other interviews that you’re my hero.
When it comes to music, something I’m passionate about, and knowing the reach and the power and how it transforms, it saves lives. Music does.
Raphael Saadiq said to me, quite often, that Chuck D was his history teacher. And so he got a lot from the music, things that he wasn’t getting maybe in school. And I feel the same way with regards to Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder.
I grew up around electronic instruments. To me, the turntable is an electronic device. At the same time, I had access to drum machines and keyboards through my uncle; then track recorders into computers. At an early age, I was messing with computers more than most hip-hop musicians.
Discipline is not consistency, and the reason why I say that is – like, for an example, making prayer five times a day, that establishes routine and consistency. That I can do. And having certain fundamental consistencies in business, can do. But time management, outside of that, that’s where that’s a challenge.
