As an artist, sometimes you’d rather not do the interview. You might feel the interviewer isn’t educated on you… or what you’re about. Ali Shaheed Muhammad Read Quote
I’m a very good listener. I think that’s one of the things that makes me a good producer. But it’s a challenge for me because my custom is to listen and absorb what someone is saying and take it in, and not necessarily comment. Ali Shaheed Muhammad Read Quote
Anything in this life that goes against love, we all should fight it. Ali Shaheed Muhammad Read Quote
You should be able to be influenced by art no matter where it comes from. Ali Shaheed Muhammad Read Quote
I keep saying if I ever get a good amount of quiet time that I want to learn to play cello. It’s a very warm instrument. The tone of the cello and the movement – I don’t know what is; I love it so much. Ali Shaheed Muhammad Read Quote
Music is an important thing of energy. And there are a lot of wonderful aspects that come with it and vibrations, the physical vibrations, the movement of notes through an instrument and creating a wave that resonates into our spirit. Ali Shaheed Muhammad Read Quote
Discipline is not consistency, and the reason why I say that is – like, for an example, making prayer five times a day, that establishes routine and consistency. That I can do. And having certain fundamental consistencies in business, can do. But time management, outside of that, that’s where that’s a challenge. Ali Shaheed Muhammad Read Quote
Raphael Saadiq said to me, quite often, that Chuck D was his history teacher. And so he got a lot from the music, things that he wasn’t getting maybe in school. And I feel the same way with regards to Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder. Ali Shaheed Muhammad Read Quote
Hip-hop has had this history where the predecessor just is so harsh and not nice to the next coming generation that it creates this separation and this gap. Ali Shaheed Muhammad Read Quote
Nothing new is on the earth right now. Technology, the things that we’re discovering, it’s been sitting here just waiting for someone to brush it off and go, ‘Oh, let me read that. Let me see how I can use this information.’ And it doesn’t matter if it’s from a tech perspective or a philosophical perspective. Ali Shaheed Muhammad Read Quote
