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El P Inspirational Quotes (64)

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It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.
Elizabeth Bishop
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I believe that if you're an artist, it's like a gift. If you can do this for a living and you can be involved in it, it's something that you can't ignore. It's the chance for you to have a voice and create something from yourself.
El-P
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Think of the long trip home. Should we have stayed home and thought of here? Where should we be today?
Elizabeth Bishop
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Im as country as a dozen eggs.
Elvin Bishop
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Blues ain’t football. You don’t have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.
Elvin Bishop
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There are all the offsprings of people who are influenced by punk. It sounds completely different - but it's still rock 'n' roll. When hip-hop came on the scene, it was the last legitimate creation of a new genre.
El-P
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As you get bigger, your staff gets bigger, and your costs get bigger.
El-P
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What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?
Elizabeth Bishop
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I am sorry for people who can't write letters. But I suspect also that you and I ... love to write them because it's kind of like working without really doing it.
Elizabeth Bishop
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All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.
Elizabeth Bishop
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The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.
Elizabeth Bishop
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Our constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached.
Ellery Schempp
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I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.
El-P
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Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
Elizabeth Bishop
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If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.
Elizabeth Bishop
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Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good. Sometimes it's to make you feel amped, or angry, or nervous. I was listening to a lot of Public Enemy when I made the record.
El-P
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So inane-I cause Colon Blow pain
El-P
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I'm a fan of some of the hyphy stuff. Hyphy has been going on a lot longer than the press has been recognizing it.
El-P
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Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Elizabeth Bishop
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What the Man-Moth fears most he must do.
Elizabeth Bishop
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I try to take a snapshot of who I am now, who I am becoming, as opposed to who I was when I was first starting to make records. I'm not trying to make boring adult music, but I try to make music more reflective of what matters to me now.
El-P
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I've always believed that if you cannot do it, then you should not do it.Only when it comes to the point where you've literally dug yourself into a hole, where it's sink or swim, is that viable to me.
El-P
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I think that everyone who does music, and everyone who does art, or everyone who decides at a young age that they're gonna do that, is someone who feels like an outsider. The world is not really set up for that.
El-P
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I've never had a huge collection of records I've never been a beat digga.
El-P
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