Vernon Reid famous quotes

Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.
-- Vernon Reid

#Ideas #Mind #Sound

As far as guitar goes, it's weird to have such a challenging activity in my life for so long - I love it. It kicks my ***** every day.
-- Vernon Reid

#Guitar #Long #Challenges

W. Kamau Bell is in the vanguard of a new era of American comedy for an unsettling, troubling, and strangely hopeful time. Firmly in the fearless tradition of Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, & Chris Rock. Comedy as common sense purged of the absurd hypocrisy that is Our America.
-- Vernon Reid

#Rocks #America #Common Sense

Taken together, our songs are like a mural of our lives.
-- Vernon Reid

#Song #Taken #Together

In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.
-- Vernon Reid

#Art #Communication #Mean

Just like there's a hole in the ozone layer, there's a hole in the musical ecological layer [wrt lack of successful "conscious" music]... 'Traditional' music was brand new at one time... When you hear R&B today, do you believe it?
-- Vernon Reid

#Believe #Successful #Ozone

PE is the sound of naked defiance.
-- Vernon Reid

#Sound #Naked #Defiance

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson

I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.

The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.

I look good. I feel good and not to sound conceited I sound great.

Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.