Mos Def Quotes - Page 5

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• Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

  Mos Def

  Dream, Records, Lines

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• At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.

  Mos Def

  Beauty, Art, Mathematics

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• Speech is my hammer bang the world into shape now let it fall - HUNGH

  Mos Def

  Fall, Bangs, Hammers

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• I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.

  Mos Def

  Names, Funny Retirement, Retiring

  "Mos Def To Retire His Name, Will Become Yasiin". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2011.

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• But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.

  Mos Def

  Creeps, Decent, Halfway

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• I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

  Mos Def

  Rap, Trying, Sound

  "House Music: Mos Def". Interview with Spank Rock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2009.

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• If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio.

  Mos Def

  Needs, Radio, Marvelous

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• I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.

  Mos Def

  Stars, Nice, Ambition

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• You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States and your name is Barack Hussein Obama! And he's using extreme methods, but his application is very smooth. Michelle Obama is extreme, her presence is extreme. And it's an extreme good. Extreme is not negative.

  Mos Def

  Believe, Names, President

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• I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

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  Rhyming, Language

  "FEATURE: Mos Def, Quiet As Kept 2.0". Interview with Clover Hope, www.xxlmag.com. June 15, 2009.

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• Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment, and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name. [But] it's time to expand and move on.

  Mos Def

  Moving, Years, Names

  "Mos Def to change his name in 2012" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2011.

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• I've been fortunate with my acting career. A lot of scripts come to me. I don't mind auditioning if something that requires that, but I haven't had to in awhile, which is a nice place to be 'cause I've been on quite a lot of auditions in my life.

  Mos Def

  Nice, Careers, Mind

  "FEATURE: Mos Def, Quiet As Kept 2.0". XXL Magazine Interview, www.xxlmag.com. June 15, 2009.

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• I don't wanna get into that space where a lot of guys now, their solo album is like eight or 10 songs with other people, you don't get an idea of who this guy is. I just wasn't interested in that.

  Mos Def

  Song, Ideas, Space

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• There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.

  Mos Def

  Artist

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care about yourself because you're like, "This is so ridiculous."

  Mos Def

  Care, Sake, Ridiculous

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

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• I believe the projects were a social experiment; we were laboratory rats stacked on top of each other, and people just knew, inherently, that there was something wrong. There's not a lot of regard for the property by the residents.

  Mos Def

  Believe, People, Rats

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• Crack mothers, crack babies and AIDS patients
  Youngbloods can't spell, but they could rock you in PlayStation.

  Mos Def

  Mother, Baby, Rap

  Song: Mathematics

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• Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?

  Mos Def

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Hips

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• I tell people all the time, I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater. But, I didn't wanna do all of this. I would've been satisfied to do it, like, on the weekends among friends, and to have a regular job.

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  Jobs, Weekend, People

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

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• Michael Jordan on the court is a completely different guy. If the play requires him to leap out all the way and grab the ball, that's what he'll do. He may be a completely shy, withdrawn sort of person [off the court].

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  Play, Guy, Different

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

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• I've always loved music and I love the language, which is a huge reason why I'm part of theater.

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  Reason Why, Language, Theater

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

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