I wish I was a rapper. There are certainly times when I wish I could just drop an album and channel all my ideas, anger, humor and energy into some music and be done with it.

Quote by Todd Boyd

Topics: Culture Quotes, Music Quotes

I wish I was a rapper. There are certainly times when I wish I could...

I wish I was a rapper. There are certainly times when I wish I could...

Hip Hop offers new ways of seeing and understanding what it means to be black...

Hip Hop offers new ways of seeing and understanding what it means to be black...

Frankly I love the word 'nigga.' It is my favorite word in the English language...

Frankly I love the word 'nigga.' It is my favorite word in the English language...

The new-school hip-hop generation exists with a mandate to 'keep it real'; this has to...

The new-school hip-hop generation exists with a mandate to 'keep it real'; this has to...

Music is an ecstasy that satisfies the deepest desires and emotions in my body and...

Music is an ecstasy that satisfies the deepest desires and emotions in my body and...

In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation....

In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation....

In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation....

In classical music, love is based on bitin' -- imitation. It's not based on interpretation....

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after...

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after...

Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny

Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is...

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is...

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz...

Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz...

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we...

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we...

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has...

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has...

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not...

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not...