Best quotes by El-P on Music

Checkout quotes by El-P on Music

• ‟ Music can feel empowering, or it can give a natural emotional voice to something people can't express. This is why it's beautiful.

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• ‟ I just like heavy music in general - from heavy rock and heavy metal and heavy rap and heavy everything. I've always been attracted to it.

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• ‟ Rap music deserves truth, and it deserves spontaneity.

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• ‟ I'm not that prolific in terms of making my own music.

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• ‟ Run the Jewels, our role is this: We can provide some music and some swagger in the face of doom and in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

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• ‟ I don't necessarily think the way people do, but that's not my problem. My problem is not to reinforce or destroy any ideas anyone might have about me, how I do what I do, what my intentions are, the way that I do it. My only job, as far as I can see, is to do the music that I want to do.

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• ‟ The thing I love about music is, if you do it long enough, you get better and better at translating what's in your head to a medium. That's why I keep doing it.

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• ‟ I really am not interested in making political music per se. I'm making personal records, but at the same time, I'm very much aware of my surroundings. And those surroundings, what's going on in the larger picture, affects my everyday life and affects the way that I think.

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• ‟ I believe that experimenting is what production is. But it doesn't mean much if you don't have a solid foundation in what you're experimenting with. You can't really deviate from music unless you know music; it's not gonna work.

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• ‟ You put a piece of music out, and it's not in your hands anymore, and that's cool with me.

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• ‟ Personally more so than shock, I think, rap music has to be born of rebellion.

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• ‟ I don't ever really feel guilty about music, quite frankly. When you're younger, you think that anything you don't like, you have to hate. I'm so far beyond that perspective. Although, I will say I resent Bruno Mars for making me like him as much as I do. I wish that he wasn't so likeable.

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• ‟ You don't have to say something directly to affect someone. You can make a piece of music without words that can capture a feeling of tragedy or struggle or anger or triumph. It's the translation of the human experience into another form.

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• ‟ I just don't believe in making music about making music anymore.

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• ‟ Some of the music I made for 'Fantastic Damage' I thought I was making for the Company Flow album, but the majority of it was post-Company Flow.

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