Chilly Gonzales famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It will lead many musicians out of the cul-de-sac they currently face. And those that do not understand will be cursed to make disposable music on laptops forever.
-- Chilly Gonzales

#Forever #Musician #Laptops
You never have to choose between being the pure artist or the craven, sellout entertainer. You can be both.
-- Chilly Gonzales

#Artist
To me, a performance is a military operation; it requires so much planning, and then ripping up the plan the minute you get there because you have no idea what the audience is feeling. I'm very much an entertainer, and sensitive to the audience's perception of me. I often have to do unexpected things, even for myself.
-- Chilly Gonzales

#Military #Feelings #Perception
Harmony is the third element of music, after melody and rhythm, and also the one which requires the most study to actually master. People can be very instinctive and extremely gifted melodically and rhythmically, and harmony can still be difficult.
-- Chilly Gonzales

#People #Study #Harmony
A lot of comedians today have misunderstood the concept of a subversive comedian. If you really want to be subversive, you have to please and offend in equal amounts.
-- Chilly Gonzales

#Misunderstood #Comedian #Today
Europeans invented art for the last 300 years, and the Americans kind of killed it with a big, huge rock.
-- Chilly Gonzales

#Art #Kind
Without the piano, I would never have attempted to rap, because I'm a poor rapper. I'm enthusiastic, but it takes me a long time to write eight bars of rap. I would battle any pianist, and yet I would forfeit happily before even getting into a rap battle with anyone.
-- Chilly Gonzales

#Rap #Writing #Long
Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal, and you want complicated music to devour.
-- Chilly Gonzales

#Style #Genius #Complicated
If you're going to point out the ridiculousness of a rule, it's naïve to think that you can break it. It's the same way that rappers have embraced capitalism. Some people say they liked it better when rap was a literal protest form in the '90s. But I think it's more a form of protest today, because it's telling the story of what happens once something forbidden is within reach. I think rap is more political today when it speaks about luxury watches than it does about fighting the power.
-- Chilly Gonzales

#Rap #Fighting #Thinking

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, its that they honor working people.
I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician.
One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians.
Cause I'm a musician, I'm not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.
I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.
It will lead many musicians out of the cul-de-sac they currently face. And those that do not understand will be cursed to make disposable music on laptops forever.
On a two week road trip I know I can get by better with no underwear than no laptop.
Back when I lived in Brooklyn, I'd sometimes take the Q train all the way out to Coney Island and back, and work on my laptop. There's something about pushy New Yorkers looking over your shoulder that really makes you produce sentences.
I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it.

Chilly Gonzales famous quotes

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