Aloe Blacc Quotes

• Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.

  Aloe Blacc

  Hip Hop, Style, Hips

  "The Evolution Of Aloe Blacc". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. October 29, 2010.

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• Compassion can change a lot of things, including the world. Young people especially need to know that, because they're the future.

  Aloe Blacc

  Compassion, People, Needs

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• You can feel a lot of things, and that's okay. Channel that into your passion.

  Aloe Blacc

  Passion, Okay, Feels

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• People need to spread love towards strangers. We all bleed the same blood and we are all part of a global community now.

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  Blood, People, Community

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• What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.

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  Needs, Shelter, Entertainment

  "Aloe Blacc Discusses His Grand Scheme to Get Some Dollars". Interview with Brandon Deroche, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2011.

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• We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

  Aloe Blacc

  Desire, Needs, Eras

  "Aloe Blacc Discusses His Grand Scheme to Get Some Dollars". Interview with Brandon Deroche, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2011.

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• I've become more introverted as I've got older. I used to be an outgoing person who joked around a lot, but as the amount of energy I expend by sharing my music has increased, I like to balance it by spending time by myself and recuperating.

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  Balance, Energy, Spending Time

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• So wake me up when it's all over
  When I'm wiser and I'm older
  All this time I was finding myself
  And I didn't know I was lost

  Aloe Blacc

  Finding Myself, Lost, Wiser

  Song: Wake Me Up, Album: Lift Your Spirit, 2013

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• Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

  Aloe Blacc

  Rocks, Hip Hop, Soul

  "The Evolution Of Aloe Blacc". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. October 29, 2010.

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• America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing.

  Aloe Blacc

  Thinking, Media, America

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• We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't recognize or acknowledge the power of messages and how deeply affected we all are by the messages we receive from the media.

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  Thinking, Media, Mind

  "Q+A: Socially conscious crooner Aloe Blacc brings a little heart and soul to the Cosmopolitan". Interview with Andrea Domanick, lasvegassun.com. July 26, 2012.

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• In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.

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  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all myself. Now I understand what everyone's jobs are, who is doing them right, and who isn't.

  Aloe Blacc

  Song, Jobs, Packaging

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.

  Aloe Blacc

  Art, Stars, Tired

  "Aloe Blacc: '50 Cent put me off rapping'" by Tom Ayres, www.digitalspy.com. June 5, 2011.

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• The Internet helps break down so many barriers. People start to see what's happening around the world, they feel more of a oneness and they get information all at the same time, so that helps.

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  People, World, Helping

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire - based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need. What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment. It's just the idea that we're so wasteful. I think a lot of self - identity and inner - personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.

  Aloe Blacc

  Reflection, Thinking, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The urgency for me is to hurry up and become visible enough to either influence or shame other artists or corporations into understanding that there needs to be an equal starting block. You can't rush to make the changes. The rush that I have is to change the mindset of the people who can actually influence the situation in developed countries and in under - developed countries ... and not all under-developed countries need to develop. Maybe they just need to learn and be re - given the tools to understand how to use the land that they live on.

  Aloe Blacc

  Country, Block, Artist

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think by the next generation either we'll have a lot of idiots who are just completely immersed in media and corporatized information, or we'll have people who enjoy media and corporatized information, but are more interconnected with human beings around the world ... And who share common goals and are willing to accept that they are a global citizen. I think the latter is more the direction.

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  Thinking, People, Goal

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• If I had to pick one social action I could encourage all my friends, family and fans to do, it would be to teach a child. One, to educate them about good music, but two, because that kind of relationship helps build a bond. When you share music with somebody, that then becomes your link to them. Music is what connects a lot of us, over borders.

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  Children, Helping, Action

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.

  Aloe Blacc

  Thinking, Reflection, Self

  "Aloe Blacc Discusses His Grand Scheme to Get Some Dollars". Interview with Brandon Deroche, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2011.

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• I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.

  Aloe Blacc

  Opportunity, Past, Political

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.

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  People, Evil, Tolerance

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• Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind of tell based on what music a person listens to what kind of person they'll be pretty much for the rest of their life.

  Aloe Blacc

  Self, People, Identity

  "Q+A: Socially conscious crooner Aloe Blacc brings a little heart and soul to the Cosmopolitan". Interview with Andrea Domanick, lasvegassun.com. July 26, 2012.

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• Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.

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  Song, Depressing, Thinking

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• I continue to write songs that are topically related to social, political and economic issues of our time, but I also recognize that onstage, I have a lot of fun and audiences have a lot of fun, so I'm trying to package the messages in music and sounds that are fun to perform and fun to listen to.

  Aloe Blacc

  Song, Fun, Writing

  "Q+A: Socially conscious crooner Aloe Blacc brings a little heart and soul to the Cosmopolitan". Interview with Andrea Domanick, lasvegassun.com. July 26, 2012.

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