Black Thought Quotes

There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

Three 6 Mafia have been around for a long time; we've made a lot of music. Anybody's music can influence anybody. I've heard people say that our music has influenced such and such, and it could be true, and it could not.

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

R&B is everywhere, and I am who I am.

To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.

I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.

I'm a tremendous believer and supporter in hip-hop and rap.

Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.

Frank Ocean is our modern-day Marvin Gaye. In our house, we have nothing but respect for him.

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

I think there's always been progressive R&B music.

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

You can call Hanson a whole lot of things, but hip-hop isn't one of them.

Dr. Dre's '2001' album changed modern pop music.

People told me that Miley's '23' wasn't hip-hop. Let me tell you, she went in and owned that track.

We listen to a lot of hip hop. They're the ones that are trailblazing. It used to be rock, but it's really turned to hip hop, and they're doing really unique and cool things, and we wanted to do that, too.

I learned so much from listening to Jay-Z, M.O.P. and Gang Starr.

I think Ye is important to hip-hop.

Neo soul, hip-hop jazz, we started that.

I totally embrace the different transformations we've seen in hip-hop throughout the years.

Hip-hop was super-exotic to us in Canada.

They say the music you listen to in your formative years stays with you and leaves an impression for the rest of your life. For me, the things that I fell in love with happened in the '70s, when artists were nurtured by record companies and it wasn't about singles.

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.'

I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.

I'm gonna try and change the course of hip hop again.