Quotes by Adam Yauch - Page 1

I won’t sell my songs for no TV Ad.
Adam Yauch / Rapper
Ads
Song
Tvs
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I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.
Adam Yauch / Rapper
Stuff
Tearing Apart
Apart
Tearing
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I think the main focus in America is - is basically greed.
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Focus
Greed
Main
Main Focus
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People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.
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Needs
People
Affecting
People More Need
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We actually became just what it was that we'd set out to make fun of.
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Fun
Actually
Became
Set
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It's pretty easy to see that... wealth doesn't really equal happiness.
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Happiness
Easy
Wealth
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I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.
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Cameras
Editing
Strong
Feel
Actually
Camera
Working
Strong Suit
Suit
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If we keep bombing other people, that creates more anger. Tensions keep escalating.
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People
Tension
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It feels good to play a little music / Tears running down my face 'cause I love to do it
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Running
Feel Good
Play
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Just keep putting out music. Don't think whether it's a hit or not and people will get you.
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People
Thinking
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Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.
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Action
Being Selfish
Motivation
Selfish
Adds
Altruistic
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I do think that all of the well wishes have contributed to the fact that my treatment and recovery are going well.
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Recovery
Treatment
Well Wishes
Wishes
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The teachings of Tibetan Buddhism have been passed down for a long time now. They have that system pretty well figured out.
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Buddhism
Tibetan
Time Long Long Time
Figured
Passed
Teachings
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I love the flow of the game. There’s a certain fluidity to basketball. I don’t enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.
Adam Yauch / Rapper
Baseball
Basketball
Football
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I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.
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Baseball
Flow
Fluidity
Love Football Game
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That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.
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Mood
Records
Remembered
Strange
Way
Hour
Strange Thing
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We just play whatever we're into. For a while there, we weren't listening to too much rap stuff, 'cause there wasn't anything interesting.
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Interesting
Listening
Rap
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If I feel like I've done the best that I can or conducted myself in the most constructive way that I can in a situation, then I feel peace.
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Peace
Attitude
Done
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We're gonna do a Bowling for Dollars-type thing, but it'll be Breakdancing on Cardboard for Yen for the ozone layer, so it'll be called Breaking in Space.
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Bowling
Ozone
Breaking
Cardboard
Layer
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, in no event may my image or name or any music or any artistic property created by me be used for advertising purposes.
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Events
May
Names
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Fresh snow is amazing. The board is real different... it floats on the powder and goes really fast. If you're riding a long board, it's more like surfing than skiing.
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Amazing
Different
Floats
Long
Powder
Real
Riding
Skiing
Snow
Surfing
Board
Fast
Fresh
Goes
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From being in Tibet and being around Tibetans, I feel like I've learned so much more about what brings a person happiness, about what actually brings myself happiness.
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Tibet
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I think it's scary that that our elected officials aren't operating under the principles of human rights, under the principles that this government and this country was founded on.
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Elected Officials
Human Rights
Officials
Principles
Scary
Founded
Elected
Operating
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I think every person has the ability to affect change...through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other people. We are constantly affecting the world.
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People
Thinking
World
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If you are striving to have more happiness in your life, it helps to guide your mind towards starting to recognize what are selfish motivations and what are constructive motivations.
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Constructive
Selfish
Starting
Towards
Guide
Helps
Motivations
Striving
Recognize
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I didn't realize how much harm I was doing back then and I think a lot of rap artists probably don't realize it now. I said a lot of stuff fooling around back then, and I saw it do a lot of harm.
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Harm
Fooling
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I kind of remember a friend of mine saying, like, you guys should make a rap record. You know, because we were already making punk records. We were a punk band. And I kind of thought, that's crazy.
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Punk
You Guys
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I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything.
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Cold
Feelings
Glands
Littles
Swollen
Thinking
Throat
Lump
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Music is going to go in some direction that is entirely inconceivable now. If someone had been asked twenty years ago what direction they thought music was going in, they wouldn't have said sampling.
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I want to say a little something that's long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.
Adam Yauch / Rapper
Friends
Inspiring
Respect
Women
Disrespect
Long
Mothers Day
Overdue
Wife
Little
Love Women Respect
Love Women Long
Wanna
Sisters
Through
Say
Got
Mothers
Offer
Till
Something
Wives
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What Western society teaches us is that if you get enough money, power, and beautiful people to have sex with, that's going to bring you happiness. That's what every commercial, every magazine, music, movie teaches us. That's a fallacy.
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Beautiful People
Fallacy
Sex
Western
Western Society
Commercial
Enough Money
Magazine
Teaches
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Everybody has a responsibility for what they put out into the world. Rather than trying to figure out what other people should be doing, work on your own interactions in the world and whatever influence they have. All of it has an effect.
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Motivational
People
Responsibility
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When I hear Obama speak he just seems really sincere and he just seems like somebody who actually has his heart and his motivation in the right place. Forget about color or race or gender or whatever, he's got his heart in the right place.
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Color
Heart
Motivation
Sincere
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I meditate in the morning and before I go to sleep. These are usually the main times because, before I go to sleep, I can get focused on what happened during the day, pull that into perspective, and that'll make my sleep a little more peaceful.
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Focused
Peaceful
Perspective
Main
Meditate
Pull
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Just as we were finishing 'Paul's Boutique' we got our own places, and I was going out to clubs a lot less. I got a bit more introverted and spent a lot more time on my own reading. I would just go down to the esoteric bookstore and wander around.
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Clubs
Esoteric
Finishing
Introverted
Reading
Wander
Bookstore
Paul
Places
Spent
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The situation with Tibet has to change. China is one of the last huge dictatorships, holding on to these colonies, provinces. That has to collapse. It's the responsibility of heads of business who are going to do business in China to lay down the law.
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Dictatorship
Holding On
Responsibility
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I think the really significant part of it for us, for the western world, is we have a lot to gain from the Tibetans - there are certain lessons that are within Tibetan culture. I mean understandings of compassion and of nonviolence that are things that we really lack in our society.
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Compassion
Lessons
Nonviolence
Significant
Tibetan
Western World
Society Culture World
Gain
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It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism.
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Buddhism
Exposed
Organization
Real
Right Direction
Teaching
Tibetan
Detail
Direction
Solid
Mainly
Seemed
Teachings
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When I was younger, I felt like I could say anything and it was funny. I've started to realize that what I say and do does affect everybody around us. I'm not just talking about what you put on a record - even just walking into a store and how you interact with the person behind the checkout counter.
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Realizing
Say Anything
Walking
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