You gonna lose your fan base chasing a fan base.

Ice Cube

People speak of hope as if it is this delicate, ephemeral thing made of whispers and spider's webs. It's not. Hope has dirt on her face, blood on her knuckles, the grit of the cobblestones in her hair, and just spat out a tooth as she rises for another go.

Matthew@CrowsFault

I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.

Quincy Jones

Progress is not achieved my preachers and guardians of morality, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics.

Stephen Fry

I had this thing called 30 before Thursday. I started on Monday and by Thursday I needed to have 30 beats, because I read in an article that Pete Rock did 25 beats a week. So I’m saying I have to do 30 beats a week… I have to.

9th Wonder

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

Robert L. Peters

The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything.

Tom Peterson

You kinda gotta know the history of something you want to be a part of. Me I learned from Dilla and Madlib, who learned from Pete Rock, who learned from James Brown, who learned from Duke Ellington...

9th Wonder

Organized religions in general, in my opinion, are dying forms. They were all very important when we didn't know why the sun moved, why weather changed, why hurricanes occurred, or volcanoes happened, Modern religion is the end trail of modern mythology. But there are people who interpret the Bible literally.

Bruce Willis

You only understand the hard parts. The rest is just bells and whistles, long division... the parts smart people hire people like me to do for them.

Dan Chase (The Old Man)

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Barrack Obama

It's now very common to hear people say, "I'm rather offended by that." As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. "I am offended by that." Well, so fucking what.

Stephen Fry