Talib Kweli Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Artists make art for themselves. Art is an honest expression. Artists who pander to their fans by trying to make music "for" their fans make empty, transparent art. The true fan does not want you to make music for them, they want you to make music for you, because that's the whole reason they fell in love with you in the first place.

  Talib Kweli

  Art, Love You, Expression

• Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.

  Talib Kweli

  Art, Jobs, Leader

• "Art Imitates life," of course, is that phrase by Oscar Wilde. I called that song "Art Imitates Life" because Oh No was in the studio and he actually came up with that hook. When I was trying to figure out a name for the record, it just kind of made sense.

  Talib Kweli

  Song, Art, Names

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

• I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.

  Talib Kweli

  Art, Deejays

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

• I like the fact that I can rep New York, but my style does not - I'm not trapped in a New York thing. I can do art songs with other artists and it's seamless.

  Talib Kweli

  Song, Art, New York

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

• Jazz is the greatest American art form and our greatest export. We don't pay attention to the youth of jazz, don't stoke the fires creatively for the youth coming up. I feel like jazz musicians became too much of purists - with Donald Byrd doing funk jazz in the '70s.

  Talib Kweli

  Art, Fire, Musician

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I have enough rhythm to blend at this point. I have enough rhythm to blend one song into another. But man, I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.

  Talib Kweli

  Song, Art, Men

  Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

  Talib Kweli

  Art, Together, Too Much

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