Back In The Day Quotes

• Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, Id be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that thats the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because Ive always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

  Flavor Flav

  Rap, Hype, Enemy

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• I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the "black people's CNN." Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.

  Saul Williams

  Cnn, People, Hip Hop

  "Hip-hop's poet laureate speaks out". Interview with Tyson Wheatley, edition.cnn.com. January 17, 2005.

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• I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.

  G-Eazy

  Thinking, Records, Firsts

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• Back in the day I used to drive with a rock just in case.

  Gonjasufi

  Rocks, Used, Cases

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Back in the day people made music to go on tour. They didn't make music to make a video.

  Raphael Saadiq

  People, Video, Goes On

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• There was a place in New York called Tannen's Magic. It still exists. But back in the day, it was really fantastic. You'd go into the old Wurlitzer Building, take the elevator to the 13th floor, which was labeled 14, because of bad luck, the elevator would open, and you'd be in heaven. It was all of these guys doing magic stuff with props. It's kind of gone now, that experience, the brick-and-mortar magic shop, but you really felt like you'd landed in the most amazing place in the world.

  David Copperfield

  New York, Bricks And Mortar, Guy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Times have changed since 2002 when I won a spot in the group 'Popstars.' Back in the day we would get fan letters in the mail, now you can find anyone and contact people. It's incredible how fans can have a personal connection, share photos, stories.

  Josh Henderson

  Times Have Changed, People, Connections

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• I'm not saying that what the radio plays isn't good. My issue is with what they don't play. You can play Jay-Z, but why don't you play Jurassic 5? You can play Nas and Nelly, but why don't you play J-Live? I want to open up the door to how it was back in the day.

  DJ Jazzy Jeff

  Doors, Play, Issues

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• The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.

  Jam Master Jay

  Technology, Phones, Cells

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• Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

  Danai Gurira

  Book, Comic, Used

  "'The Walking Dead's' Danai Gurira Excited to Embody Badass Michonne". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 22, 2012.

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• I don't believe there are any more blockbusters films. Back in the day with music, people would wait up all night for the music store to open to get their favorite CD, and if it were sold out they would come back again.

  Darius McCrary

  Believe, Night, Cds

  "The Darius McCrary Interview - The Young and the Restless". Interview with Michael Fairman, michaelfairmansoaps.com. December 22, 2009.

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• Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.

  Maria Menounos

  Agency, Firsts, Sides

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

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• Back in the day in my teens I was listening to Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery a lot; before that I was listening to what I would call now the more 'simple' jazz players (but still very valid), like Barney Kessell or Johnny Smith; I learnt a lot of voicings from Johnny Smith records. Now, I listen to the old blues players; that's what you'd hear in my house if there was music on. It would be Albert Collins or Albert King.

  Larry Carlton

  Music, Kings, Simple

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• Back in the day, in '91 or so, I tried to interview Fugazi for Rolling Stone, which the band felt stood for everything they detested about corporate infiltration of music. They said, 'We'll do the interview if you give us a million dollars of cash in a suitcase.' Which was their way of saying no.

  Michael Azerrad

  Giving, Rolling, Dollars

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• Back in the day I took a lot of supplements and tons of amino acids. Still do. But back then it was pretty unusual. That's how I got the nickname The Chemist.

  Frank Zane

  Nicknames, Acid, Unusual

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• I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day.

  David Millar

  Thinking, Cycling, Dapper

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• I look around me and I don’t see any rock’n’roll at the moment. Instead it’s all choreography and stylists and wigs and stuff. It’s like they’re afraid to let the music breathe. No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day. We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too. We didn’t have no dancers, we didn’t have no goddamn wigs.

  Ronnie Spector

  Sweet, Rocks, Dancer

  "Ronnie's spectre" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2006.

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• I remember back in the day, when Jordan wore the 7s, something magical always happened. He always performed at high levels, but it was something different when he laced up the 7s. Some of the Jordans still have that juice that MJ left in them, and the 7 is one of them.

  Nate Robinson

  Different, Juice, Levels

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• I think people fail to realize that teams and organizations have been stacking teams since way back in the day.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Team, Thinking, Organization

  "Talking with Our Mouths Full: Carmelo Anthony". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 11, 2011.

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• It's pretty cool that people will pay for something even though they don't have to. It's totally different now to back in the day. Now you're paying for a record because you believe in the band. In the future that will be the only time people will pay for albums, because there's some kind of connection.

  Ezra Koenig

  Believe, People, Connections

  "Vampire Weekend: An ivy league hero is something to be". Interview with Gareth Grundy, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2010.

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• I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that.

  Mickey Rourke

  Fun, Talking, Years

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• I never thought I was pretty enough. I was kind of tall and lanky. I don't mind it now, but back in the day I hated it. I would tell myself that what I think is ugly at 17 is actually what's going to be pretty about me later.

  Giuliana Rancic

  Thinking, Mind, Ugly

  Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. November 17, 2008.

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• I don't get much sauciness, I'm too old for saucy now, but back in the day I think there were a few marriage proposals. And I do use the fact women approach me as a chance to chat them up. They never seem to mind too much.

  Roger Lloyd-Pack

  Thinking, Mind, Too Much

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• As I grew up, I played in sandals. I played in flip-flops all the time back in the day. That's why I didn't really care about spraining my ankles. When I first started in the NBA, I loved low-cuts. I can play (in them), because I used to grow up playing in flip-flops all the time.

  Rajon Rondo

  Growing Up, Cutting, Nba

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• "Back in the day when I started - it's like I walked five miles to school in the snow barefooted" - there were three channels.I don't know what I would do.

  Oprah Winfrey

  School, Snow, Three

  Source: wwd.com

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