Pepa Quotes

Smiths songs certainly have an astonishing afterlife.

In every language you can imagine, I've had people say 'Appetite For Destruction' is the soundtrack to their lives. I don't think you could say something nicer to an entertainer or performer - can't get more respectful.

Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums.

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.

I was a B.I.G. fan. I like all of his stuff. I don't really have a favorite song. They all are good, and each brings different memories to me. And you can still listen to it to this day and it means something.

I can put in Bob Marley's music now, and it's still relevant.

We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that.

Led Zeppelin isn't done yet, quite clearly, because every year since 1968 there's been new fans.

After Chuck Berry died, it seemed web sites popped up like mushrooms to show where he'd taken the guitar introduction to 'Johnny B. Goode' from to prove that his music was nothing new, that it was only ignorance, or vanity, that led his listeners to think that not only was the music different - they might be, too.

I never met Johnny Cash personally, but I feel like I did because I listened to so much of his music, and even though he's gone, it's still there: you can go pull a vinyl record out and hear his personal thoughts and his voice and feel connected to him.

I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac's entire body of work is made available for his fans.

I loved Lauryn Hill; I loved the Fugees.

Outwardly seeing how your music effects culture and everyday life, is amazing.

We've been called the soundtrack of people's lives. There have been lots of downs, of course but mostly ups. That EW&F is still clicking at least twenty years on and has a life of its own, that the songs have stayed alive - we're like a good book that people go back to.

I think that 'Pinata' album is going to stand the test of time. It's going to be a moment in hip-hop, whether people know it or not. It's nothing else like that in rap. It's going to forever hold its place.

You can't really take it for granted that people listen to your music. I want to write songs that are on par, at least in my mind, with the ones I've loved for my whole life and that will be around forever.

If somebody told me people would still care about our music 25 years ago, I would have thought they were crazy.

We've influenced other artists, and when younger generations become fans of those artists and hear about us, they discover our music too.

When an audience takes to a song and it becomes older, in a way it changes it entirely. And then the journey just begins.

A lot of our fans, they always say Salt-N-Pepa and Spinderella was the soundtrack to their lives.

I think when a lot of people hear my father's music they are immediately drawn in.

I love Bad Bunny. He's changing the game. I think he's doing something very important with his success.

People say I'm destroying hip-hop, and I'm like, there's so much hip-hop, and it's so popular, so I don't know why I have the power to destroy it.

The Roots brand is like the Lipton of hip-hop, so to speak.