"I didn't get into music until the early 90s when I heard rap music for the first time."

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Source : Source: pitchfork.com

Gonjasufi

#Rap Quotes #Firsts Quotes #First Time Quotes

“The first instrument I had was made in the late '70s. Back then they had basically one tuning. I shifted slightly away from that tuning right away (to what is now called the Baritone Melody Tuning), because I wanted more string overlap between the two sides.The instrument I currently play has an active pickup system, Fret Rails, a fully adjustible bridge, adjustible truss, Flaps adjustible nut. Even with all of these advances, I'm always struck when I play the older instrument how good they were even then. Emmett's always been great at implementing his ideas.”
“We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our countryâ€¦. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. MORE IS GOOD. MORE IS GOOD. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.”
“I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.”
“The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee...”
“I love players like Thurston Moore. I mean, you can put notes down on a sheet of paper, and if you practice and get your chops up, you can play like an Eddie Van Halen or a Steve Vai. But nobody can do what Thurston Moore does; he's his own guy. He talks through his instrument in a language that's all his own.”
“I'm a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.”
“Nature is full for us of seeming inconsistencies and glad surprises.”
“In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.”

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