"Without sounding cliché, music is like air. It provides for me. I don't necessarily look for what I can get out of it. It's a compulsion. I've always gotten out of it everything."

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Source : "Inhabiting Shabazz Palaces". Interview with Aly Comingore, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2014.

Ishmael Butler

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“A dictator's chief problem is keeping the stomachs of his subjects full while keeping their heads empty.”
“In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.”
“As impossible, in fact, as keeping the moon...So I looked down the line at all my friends, knowing I would always remember this. And then I turned my gaze back up to the sky, and put my faith in that moon and its return.”
“If I'm his 'twin,' we do not have the same mother.”
“The mirror never sees itself. The reflection never is itself.”
“But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.”
“The epic poet has behind him a tradition of matter and a tradition of style; and that is what every other poet has behind him too; only, for the epic poet, tradition is rather narrower, rather more strictly compelling.”
“Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard part of writing isn't the writing; it's the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?”

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