"I am the ambassador to the world. I use music to talk to the world - to try to unite masses. To try to spark conversations. To try and evoke legislation to change that'll really be for the people. That's behind-the-scenes kind of thing for me. And that's what the music is for me."

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Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

Ali Shaheed Muhammad

#People Quotes #Trying Quotes #World Quotes

“Take me to the driest county in the most conservative state, and in two hours this determined hedonist will find you all the drugs, whores, and booze you'll need to pass an eventful weekend.”
“I want to be connecting with the subconscious, if I can call it that, because there are not to many words to describe the real deep inner part of a human beingI want to be at that place where everything is blotted out and where creativity happens, and to get there I practice, you know I'm a prolific practicer, I still practice every dayYou have to have the skills, then you want to not think when you're playing, that's when you let whatever deep level of creativity, spirituality, I mean, you know these words are so inadequate these days but you want to get to this place where they exist.”
“Vegetarianism -- You are what you eat, and who wants to be a lettuce?”
“Words can never really help you say, what you want them to anyway. And words can never really help you see, what you really want to be.”

Source : "Song: 'Midnight' ('The Poets And The Prophet')". 2005.
“We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.”

Source : "The Boy's Book about Indians: Being What I Saw and Heard for Three Years on the Plains". Book by Edmund Bostwick Tuttle, p. 61, 1873.
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.”
“Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.”
“I believe staying young at heart is all in one's personal attitude... you can't instill that in anyone.”

Source : Source: 55plusmag.us

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