Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
There are two types of people, two types of performers: Performers who know how to keep a show going literally when the power is gone and performers who haven't had that much experience and will panic and freak out and don't know what to do.
El-P
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
El-P
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: March 2
Hip-Hop Artist
Musician
Rapper
Record Producer
Singer
Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
Jaime Meline
Two
Havens
Power
Haven
Going
Type
Much
Gone
Performers
People
Show
Panic
Experience
Types
Keep
Freak
Shows
Literally
More quotes by El-P
The fact of the matter is, if you're not putting out stuff that people are feeling, then your record label doesn't mean a goddamn thing.
El-P
My relationship to Brooklyn is probably the relationship that any 40-year-old man has to his hometown, which is that this is where I live, this what I know, yet it's different, it's changed. My fascination with the city has maybe subsided and now it's just where I'm from, where I live.
El-P
I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.
El-P
As you get bigger, your staff gets bigger, and your costs get bigger.
El-P
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
I hope that people take away hope, maybe not in an obvious sense, but in the form of hearing somebody who's genuinely fighting to stay above water. And in that fight, there's hope. In that fight, maybe there's positivity.
El-P
Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good.
El-P
There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.
El-P
Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.
El-P
I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.
El-P
So inane-I cause Colon Blow pain
El-P
I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of the human experience in some way.
El-P
Maybe my great struggle, and it's probably not anything different from too many other people, but it certainly is what drives the music, is a hugely internal one.
El-P
Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.
El-P
The only thing an artist is useful for, and the only reason why we don't just line 'em up against the wall and shoot them, is because, at their best, they're the reflection of our lives, that most regular people can't even afford to think about.
El-P
We're not steadfast about not repeating mistakes.
El-P
There is a difference these days between who's making the music and buying the music, in terms of the way that they think, grew up, and their perspective. It's become much more diverse.
El-P
I am trying to change hip-hop music because I do feel there are places people can go with production and the structure of an album that they haven't gone yet. But, like I said, I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.
El-P
Oh my god what am I doing with my life?
El-P
The emergence of the independent hip-hop scene has replaced what we called the underground scene. It's what the underground scene has evolved into: actual businesses.
El-P