Adam Yauch Quotes

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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.

It feels good to play a little music / Tears running down my face 'cause I love to do it

People need to be more aware of how they're affecting people.

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.

I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.

It's pretty easy to see that... wealth doesn't really equal happiness.

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.

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.

I won’t sell my songs for no TV Ad.

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.

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.

If we keep bombing other people, that creates more anger. Tensions keep escalating.

Just keep putting out music. Don't think whether it's a hit or not and people will get you.

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.

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.