Isaac Hayes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I influence people - hopefully on the positive side.
-- Isaac Hayes

#People #Sides #Influence
If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
-- Isaac Hayes

#Rose #Thorns #Bears
Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
-- Isaac Hayes

#Dream #Fun #Simple
Self-expression is always a right, but its still not there to be abused.
-- Isaac Hayes

#Self #Expression #Stills
Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
-- Isaac Hayes

#Religious #People #Sacred
I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.
-- Isaac Hayes

#Kids #Thinking #Needs
The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And theyll tell you if you ask.
-- Isaac Hayes

#Rapper #Gone #Influence
At the end of the day, we are responsible for our own lives. If anything happens to us, don't blame somebody else. Backtrack and look at what you did to contribute to that. You also contribute to your successes. Once you learn that, you're on your way.
-- Isaac Hayes

#The End Of The Day #Way #Looks
I was going through some emotional turmoil. You can tell by the tunes on the album that I was going through a break-up of my marriage. It was the only way I could express myself.
-- Isaac Hayes

#Emotional #Tunes #Albums
Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.
-- Isaac Hayes

#Real #Opportunity #Village
As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.
-- Isaac Hayes

#Past #Practice #Rights
There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins. Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honored. As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.
-- Isaac Hayes

#Religious #Past #Years
There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.
-- Isaac Hayes

#Religious #Racist #World
A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
-- Isaac Hayes

#Brother #Art #School

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