Talib Kweli Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

  Talib Kweli

  Beautiful, Song, Hip Hop

• "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 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.

• 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.

• To be honest, that whole exchange with Crunk Feminist actually made me write the song because I realize there's a lot of young women out there so hurt by the misogynistic images in hip-hop they paint it with such a broad brush stroke that they think anybody that defends hip-hop is defending misogyny.

  Talib Kweli

  Song, Hurt, Writing

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