"As a kid growing up in a lower-class neighbourhood, where everyone around me was listening to hip hop, what was I doing listening to new wave, and why was that my favourite music? I don't know why, but it just spoke to me."

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Source : Source: thequietus.com

Chino Moreno

#Growing Up Quotes #Kids Quotes #Hip Hop Quotes

“I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it. It was possible to live through the decade preoccupied by the mortgage and the pence you saved on your income tax. It was also possible for those of us who saw what was happening to turn our eyes in a different direction; but what, in another decade, had been a trip to the clap clinic was now a trip to the mortuary.”

Source : Derek Jarman (1993). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”
“Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.”
“Escape is not a dirty word. None of us can face what's happening head-on all of the time.”
“And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.”
“For three years, between 16 and 19, I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot - legends - and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.”
“I've got rock 'n' roll in my blood.”
“Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.”
“It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.”

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