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I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.

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Chuck D
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 1
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When culture is created in boardrooms with a panel of six or seven strategists for the masses to follow, to me that is no different than an aristocracy. It's not created from the people in the middle of the streets, so to speak. It is created from a petri dish for the sake of making money, and it is undermining the longevity of the culture.
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I think traveling the world has helped to keep Public Enemy alive. We've never solely depended on the United States.
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Where else can you go with respect to the work, lyrics, and message of the music? If you are past high school age, you can get by with saying very little the first or second time around. However, after a while you know you are going to have to say something beyond high school stuff.
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I encourage more blacks and people of color to get a passport. That's one way to help put people on an equal platform.
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I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.
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I'm envious of the way that electronic dance music has organised itself. It has been able to understand what it ain't rather than what it is. And I think that slipped away from hip-hop as soon as the DJs lost the majority of the say so in the direction of the music.
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My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
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I don't have any exteriors that would actually put me into some kind of different air that would actually intimidate somebody to stay away from me.
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Let the voice be the voice of the voiceless and let it come from the world of rap music to keep the stereotype and the peace at the same time.
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I'm a multi-tasker. I was down with that stuff before they invented the term.
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Getting on the road and driving along a road at night, or even in the daytime and seeing the oceans or whatever, is always liberating.
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Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!
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Young people are having a hard time with what's reality and what's fantasy these days...We created discussion. It wasn't to create controversy for sale's sake, but rather it was my obligation to use the medium for discussion. Nobody's discussing the grown-up topics they are faking and fronting.
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Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.
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I'm not a firm believer of mo' money mo' problems - I think that's stupid. I think it's that problems are already there that can be exacerbated by more things you don't understand.
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I think hip hop should be a living word. And what I mean by the living word is like yo, you gotta have the words that provide life.
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The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.
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Find like-minded people and try not to be individualized to the point where you try to fight it all and think about it all on your own.
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To live a life you love, you must Love the life you live.
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I always remain optimistic. There are three levels of music production: the majors, indies, and what I call inties, music distributed via the Internet. The Internet is one area that I have used pretty effectively to break free of corporate control.
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