Chuck D Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• Rap music and rap records used to always be like this: we get one or two shots to a piece cause it was a singles marketplace and when the major record companies saw that it could also handle the sales of the albums then they started to force everybody to expand their topics from 1 to about 10 and you gotta deliver 12 songs, so a lot of times if you took a person who wasn't really developed, and the diversity of trying say 12 different things, you know the companies were like "Cool! Say the same thing 12 different ways."

  Chuck D

  Song, Rap, Two

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

• I'm recording freely, and if I make a song, I release it immediately, so I'm more likely to believe in one song at a time as opposed to albums.

  Chuck D

  Song, Believe, Albums

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. June 13, 2001.

• There's nothing worse than a good video and good song, and you see a band and hate them because they can't perform. That's wack.

  Chuck D

  Song, Hate, Video

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I adhere to the philosophy, "I don't care who writes the laws, let me write the songs."

  Chuck D

  Song, Philosophy, Writing

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

• McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music.

  Chuck D

  Song, Kings, Teenage

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

• You know, I've written many of my songs while driving - which is against the law in many cases.

  Chuck D

  Song, Law, Driving

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

• Corporations have steered the industry into what it wants, and a lot of times they will make artists record what it wants or to make songs talk to who they want to talk to. But sometimes the heart and the head have to be able to talk and deal with a situation that's evident.

  Chuck D

  Song, Heart, Artist

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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