Bob Dylan Quotes

Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

The advertisements form the most interesting and practical city news. They are the hopes, the thoughts, the joys, the plans, the shames, the losses, the mishaps, the fortunes, the pleasures, the miseries, the politics, and the religion of the people. Each advertiser is therefore a reporter, a sort of penny-a-liner, he paying the penny. What a picture ... one day's advertisements ... presents to mankind!

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

I can walk down the street and have a human experience every day.

I believe in the power of ideas. I believe in the power of sharing knowledge.

Pop culture mirrors culture, and, I think, as a rapper, hip-hop in a lot of ways mirrors the things that are happening in urban neighborhoods.

I think, in a lot of ways, hip-hop is interesting to me because it's like the modern-day folk music.

I simply share ideas I believe in with people around me.

Shopping malls across the county are dying fast, and my images of them are very nostalgic for most people that grew up attending these malls. These malls were communal spaces. These were gigantic chat rooms before the Internet existed. You went to the mall to meet and communicate with others, not just to shop.

It occurs to me that cricket is not the true sport in London - gossip is.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

Hopefully, we learn to appreciate hip-hop here so that it doesn't go the way of jazz.

Rap is just a movement within the larger culture of hip-hop.

It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.

A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.

Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?

Writing is not some quiet, closet act.

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

I'm not going to stop talking to people who come up to me in an airport. I'm not going to worry about what may be their ulterior motive.

Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.