Hips Quotes - Page 37

• I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff.

  Kid Rock

  Taken, School, Hip Hop

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• Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Disease, Fantasy

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• I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.

  Jill Scott

  Writing, Hip Hop, Musical

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• A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing - it's been all downhill since then.

  Will Self

  Beautiful, Back When, Young

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• When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.

  Rob Sheffield

  Rocks, Years, Indie Rock

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.11, Penguin

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• Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff.

  Skrillex

  Design, Hip Hop, Facts

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

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• With all due respect to Mick Jagger, who is one of my idols, I think it's a mistake to leap around and sing at 53. When I started, there weren't any women I looked up to. It was Mick. I never saw anybody go on a stage and have that tongue-in-cheek attitude. It was all straight, including the Beatles. I love his attitude, hands on hips and lips out.

  Grace Slick

  Attitude, Mistake, Thinking

  Interview with Mary Campbell, articles.latimes.com. January 01, 1993.

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• Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If you're not used to them, they can cause soreness a day or two later, but it's a 'cool' soreness. A badge of honor.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Two, Honor, Target

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• One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Pride, People

  "Taylor Swift: 'I want to believe in pretty lies'" by Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2012.

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• It's just that when you heard hip-hop, no matter where you were, it was a culture that kind of made you want to try to be part of it. Whether you thought you were an artist, whether you thought you could be a DJ, whether you thought you could breakdance, or whether you thought you could rap. It was the kind of culture that had a lot of open doors.

  Ice T

  Rap, Artist, Doors

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• Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.

  Paul Weller

  Country, Song, Kids

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• Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.

  Saul Williams

  Party, Hip Hop, Consciousness

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

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• What's wrong with hip-hop is the system that controls the definition of it. There needs to be more balance on the airwaves.

  Saul Williams

  Hip Hop, Balance, Needs

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

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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 did have reconstructive plastic surgery and a tummy tuck. And from hip to hip, there's a very big scar. It looks better than it did... So I say, if you don't like that skin, have it removed. This is my advice: if you're gonna do it - just go for it.

  Carnie Wilson

  Advice, Skins, Looks

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• The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.

  Amy Winehouse

  Sweet, Love Is, Hip Hop

  "Frank opinions" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2004.

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• Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.

  will.i.am

  Hip Hop, Hops

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be.

  will.i.am

  Thinking, People, Hip Hop

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

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• I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

  Al Yankovic

  Thinking, Nerd, Culture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Impact, Hip Hop, Political

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• Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Hip Hop, Pavement, Hops

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• Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs and Russell Simmons have made millions from their clothing lines.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Clothing Line, Black Youth, Clothes

  "Is Bill Cosby Right?". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2005.

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• Hip hop music is important precisely because it sheds light on contemporary politics, history, and race. At its best, hip hop gives voice to marginal black youth we are not used to hearing from on such topics.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Light, Race, Black Youth

  Michael Eric Dyson (2010). “Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip Hop”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Intelligent, Offering, Seductive

  Michael Eric Dyson (2010). “Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip Hop”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it suggests that there's a deep and profound hunger for a new politics to come forth. And a guy like him has been able to mobilize that and to reach certain parts of the hip-hop generation.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Profound, Hip Hop, Guy

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