Adam Yauch Quotes

Everybody has a responsibility for what they put out into the world. Rather than trying to figure out what other people should be doing, work on your own interactions in the world and whatever influence they have. All of it has an effect.

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Motivational, Responsibility, People

"Adam Yauch on Happiness: Part One". Interview with Randy Taran, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.

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I think every person has the ability to affect change...through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other people. We are constantly affecting the world.

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Thinking, People, World

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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes.

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Names, May, Events

"Beastie Boys: 'We can't make new music' and may never play live again" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2014.

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People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.

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People, Needs

"Adam 'MCA' Yauch of the Beastie Boys dies at 47" by Michael Pearson, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2012.

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I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.

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Inspiring, Mothers Day, Long

"Fictional character: MCA". "Beastie Boys: Video Anthology", www.imdb.com.

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If I feel like I've done the best that I can or conducted myself in the most constructive way that I can in a situation, then I feel peace.

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Peace, Attitude, Done

"Adam Yauch on Happiness: Part Two". Interview with Randy Taran, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.

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It feels good to play a little music / Tears running down my face 'cause I love to do it

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Running, Play, Feel Good

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When I was younger, I felt like I could say anything and it was funny. I've started to realize that what I say and do does affect everybody around us. I'm not just talking about what you put on a record - even just walking into a store and how you interact with the person behind the checkout counter.

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Say Anything, Realizing, Walking

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Just keep putting out music. Don't think whether it's a hit or not and people will get you.

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Thinking, People

Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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It's pretty easy to see that... wealth doesn't really equal happiness.

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Happiness, Wealth, Easy

"Adam Yauch on Happiness: Part One". Interview with Randy Taran, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2012.

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That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.

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Way, Records, Strange

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I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.

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Stuff, Tearing Apart

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When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.

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Motivation, Heart, Color

"An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.

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The situation with Tibet has to change. China is one of the last huge dictatorships, holding on to these colonies, provinces. That has to collapse. It's the responsibility of heads of business who are going to do business in China to lay down the law.

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Responsibility, Holding On, Dictatorship

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If we keep bombing other people, that creates more anger. Tensions keep escalating.

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People, Tension

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I won’t sell my songs for no TV Ad.

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Song, Tvs, Ads

"Song: "Putting Shame in Your Game" ("Hello Nasty")". www.theguardian.com. 1998.

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It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.

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Real, Teaching, Buddhism

"Sometimes, you just gotta' shut down". Interview With Amy Green, www.salon.com. 1995.

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I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.

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Strong, Editing, Cameras

"An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.

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Music is going to go in some direction that is entirely inconceivable now. If someone had been asked twenty years ago what direction they thought music was going in, they wouldn't have said sampling.

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Music Is

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I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything.

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Thinking, Feelings, Littles

"Adam 'MCA' Yauch of the Beastie Boys dies at 47" by Michael Pearson, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2012.

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We just play whatever we're into. For a while there, we weren't listening to too much rap stuff, 'cause there wasn't anything interesting.

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Rap, Interesting, Listening

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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I love the flow of the game. There’s a certain fluidity to basketball. I don’t enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.

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Basketball, Baseball, Football

"An Interview with Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys". Interview with David Flumenbaum, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2008.

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Born: August 5, 1964
Died: May 4, 2012
Occupation: Rapper
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