“With rap music, because it's all so on the street, you get treated like a street cat: "All right, you've been eatin' enough, you're fat, get out of the way now and let somebody else come by."” WayEnoughStreetsMusic IsCatRapTreatedFatsRap Music Author:Nas
“I ain't makin' music for the media. I make music for the people in the streets - that want a street level of entertainment. I'm makin' music because I have the streets to feed.” PeopleWantLevelsStreetsMediaMusic IsEntertainment Author:Rick Ross
“I hate the business part of music. Music is just like the streets. There's loyal and disloyal people, people saying one thing and then don't do it.” PeopleHateOne ThingStreetsMusic IsI HateLoyalDisloyal Author:Schoolboy Q
“No music is going to stop the war. What's going to stop the war is a large amount of body bags, or a large amount of people in the streets, protesting it before it starts.” PeopleWarBodyStreetsAmountMusic IsBags Author:Eddie Vedder
“I don't think my music really provokes that kind of energy that makes people want to grab AKs and rally through the streets. I don't think my music is gangsta in that sense.” PeopleThinkingWantKindEnergyStreetsMusic IsProvokingGangsta Author:Fashawn
“Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.” WantMadeStreetsMusic IsLifestyleOrganized Author:Brandon Thomas
“You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.” WantKindIdeasWholeAmericaPastChurchRecordsAliveOne ThingStreetsMusic IsCatRadioAll KindsHistory Of Music Author:Jerry Garcia
“Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.” PeopleStillsSpeakLanguageStreetsMusic IsEssenceFolksHip HopHipsHopsZeroFolk MusicGround Zero Author:Talib Kweli
“Growing up, there was always music around, whether across the street, or on the next-door neighbor's stereo. So, as in life, music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion. Music is amazing.” HelpingNextEmotionGrowing UpGrowingDoorsStreetsMusic IsNeighborNext Door Neighbors Author:Tyler Perry
“Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.” PeopleWayNeedsLooksTwoPlayOrderStreetsCommunicationMusic IsConnectionsTwo WaysTwo Way Street Author:John Petrucci
“In all honesty, based on the direction my life was heading in before I got a real break in the music sh*t, I'm not gonna say I would be one hundred percent in a negative direction, but I know that I would still be in the streets, so if it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that.” IfsKnowsStillsRealWould BeAbleSchoolBreakFiveStreetsHonestyMusic IsPercentHundredHigh SchoolNegativeFinishedNineOutletsHeadings Author:Nipsey Hussle
“I was inspired by what students have done in some schools organizing walkouts protesting the lack of funding and that sort of thing. There are opportunities for students to engage in those types of protests - taking to the streets - but there is also writing poetry, writing music, beginning to express themselves, holding forums, educating each other, the whole range.” WritingDoneWholeSchoolOpportunityStreetsStudentsTypeMusic IsInspiredRangeProtestFundingForumsWriting PoetryWriting Music Author:Michelle Alexander