I’ve never been good at getting on people’s nerves, and from the little quotes I read, it’s like, ‘You’re not doing enough in your life if you’re not making someone angry.’ And I’m like, ‘Man. But my life – I seem to help people get somewhere, so am I not? Should I be more aggressive?’ That’s the way my inside voice sounds. Ali Shaheed Muhammad Read Quote
I’m a believer in the nap. I don’t care what it is. 15 minutes. Five hours. If you know someone’s going to come back and come to work. Ali Shaheed Muhammad Read Quote
I think at some point there may be artists who will get fed up, and they deliberately want to use their art as a means to rock the waves a little bit. And instead of doing the status quo, they’ll deliberately go out to really make a change. I think Kendrick Lamar is an example of that. Ali Shaheed Muhammad Read Quote
Our records are commodities. We’re looking to make a sale. The radio stations are looking to get the advertising dollars. The end. Ali Shaheed Muhammad Read Quote
But I could not imagine having a child and the child not having a relationship with music that opens up their mind and their imagination and teaches them things. Ali Shaheed Muhammad Read Quote
I really care about what I put out, and probably more than the fans care. At times, I think I over-care. But I just know that the body of work has such a high standard that it’s kind of like, in my own head, I need to at least match it if not get over that, so that’s the challenge. Ali Shaheed Muhammad Read Quote
When it comes to music, something I’m passionate about, and knowing the reach and the power and how it transforms, it saves lives. Music does. Ali Shaheed Muhammad Read Quote
If you allow yourself to be closed, especially to a younger generation, then that’s death. That’s instant death. Ali Shaheed Muhammad Read Quote
My mom used to be concerned ’cause I would never go outside. And when I’d go outside, I’d have friends, but I just was always in the house listening to music, practicing DJing all the time. Then my uncle got a keyboard, drum machine, so I’d just be in the house at 12, 13, just, like, messing up his presets. And my mom was like, ‘My son is strange.’ Ali Shaheed Muhammad Read Quote
Because I express myself through the music, I want to be responsible in that expression and how it carries on well after I’m here. But that’s just me. Ali Shaheed Muhammad Read Quote
