Black Thought Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Black Thought Quotes. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Black Thought Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

I don’t sit down and write a song, and then slam down the phone like, ‘We got another one!’ and pop some champagne. It’s like if someone‘s writing a novel: You write a series of drafts.

Black Thought

‘Rise Up’ is very necessary. Point blank.

Black Thought

I’ve never studied music.

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I move in silence. I don’t like puttin’ too much of me out there to be dissected, analyzed.

Black Thought

I’ll read a book. I’ll watch a documentary or a film or whatever. I’ll go to an art exhibit and just try and open myself to influence.

Black Thought

Anyone that I’ve ever worked with, it’s not like I just meet you or someone throws us together for the sole purpose of coming up with a song that’s gonna be a hit. I have to have some sort of relationship, or we had to have interacted on some other sort of level and that’s when it feels most natural.

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I strive for improvement. want to be a master of my craft.

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For me, I’m a super private person.

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I’m down to work with anyone as long as it’s an organic collaboration.

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The Roots – we signed our first record deal when I was about 19 years old.

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For me, the arts has always been sort of my saving grace.

Black Thought

Our plan for Passyunk Productions is to make an impact in the film & tv world by leveraging our collective resources, telling great stories and creating smart programming told from a unique perspective.

Black Thought

Everything we’ve ever done has been for artistry‘s sake, and for the greater good and paying homage to those who came before us and paving the way for those who come after us.

Black Thought

The thing that’s carried over from my visual-art education into what I do musically is my openness.

Black Thought

Don’t do anything for fear, because fear will never do anything for you.

Black Thought

You can only be the great artist for so long – come out with effort after effort that garners all this praise.

Black Thought

We are true to our name. We’re somewhat beneath the surface, and I think well always be to a certain extent.

Black Thought

It’s weird what can trigger the beginning of a song or some bars. It can be a banging slice of apple pie or it can be smelling a certain perfume or something.

Black Thought

What we do every day onstage, there’s lights, there’s lots of other musicians, there’s an audience, there’s a microphone and mic stands – layers of the onion we have to kind of hide behind.

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We’re trying to plug a void and bring what’s been missing back to hip-hop.

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I mean, I’m no superhero.

Black Thought

Some of my favorites are the classics like ‘What They Do,’ ‘Proceed,’ ‘You Got Me,’ and ‘Silent Treatment.’

Black Thought

I work well within The Roots because I can let my music speak for itself while Ahmir does most of the press and the promotion and the brand-building because he enjoys that.

Black Thought

By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.

Black Thought

Nah, I don’t feel overlooked, underappreciated, or none of that because it’s a short list of artists, past and present, that I kind of have respect for. And in all of those situations, the admiration and respect is mutual.

Black Thought

The Tonight Show‘ afforded us the opportunity to work with The Muppets and other ‘Sesame Street’ characters, and we always had the desire to do something that spoke to young people.

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Everything I do has been a lifetime in the making.

Black Thought

You can’t expect every idea of yours to stick or even come to fruition, you have to make sacrifices for the greater good of the team.

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I was raised as a Muslim.

Black Thought

I got a family to take care of and kids to feed. That’s my motivation, this is my job.

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I think we need more community health programs and we need to develop programs that are low-cost.

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I’ve always sort of listened to news radio.

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I made the mistake of going to a barber who was not from Philly, and let’s just say, I would never do that again.

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I’m tryin’ to get some acting credibility, get some other work.

Black Thought

Something that is funny, that I use sometimes if I’m doing comedy, is the fact that I’m now often mistaken for the rapper Rick Ross. And I don’t know that I’ve ever corrected anyone – like I’ve never said, ‘No no, I’m not Rick Ross, I’m Black Thought from The Roots.’

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Commercial success won‘t come to us from a change in the music. It will gradually be the result of a change in the appetite of the audience.

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I started as a visual artist and I’ve always dealt with music in that same sort of way.

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I feel like Black Thought is a name that has so much meaning and depth, not only to me but to my fans, that it’s something that I wanted to hold onto a little bit tighter.

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If there’s a track that’s rhyme friendly, the verse will basically write itself. If the track is less rhyme friendly, you have to put forth a little more effort to get the song out.

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I think at the end of the day the diversity has served as a major… that’s what has determined the difference between The Roots and some of the other artists from our graduating class. I feel we followed the De La Soul, the Native Tongue blueprint.

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I love Trader Joe‘s.

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I remember when I was 15 or 16 years old, I couldn’t imagine what life would be like past the age of 30, just because I didn’t know that many men who had lived beyond their 20s.

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A lot of our earlier material was freestyle tunes.

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I do not seem like a funny guy.

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My children have a world of opportunities that were not available to me. My kids have no idea about going without – there’s no desire or need they have that hasn’t been fulfilled, which is a blessing.

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In a lot of places Jay-Z is considered God, Philly, our hometown being one of them.

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There’s a lot of terms we come up with for the music that we’re making because we want something that’s going to be definitive. Often there is no word to encapsulate the emotion that the music represents.

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I’m anti-ageism in the arts.

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As we get further into our career we’re figuring out how to become more efficient as artists, and doing so many different things is testament to our cohesiveness as the Roots.

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When people see that we’re signed to Def Jam, the perception has changed.

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I definitely enjoy performing on stage with The Roots.

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The first rhymes I wrote, I was 9. It was Kool Moe Dee-style.

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You are an instrument if you understand your voice and how to use it – this sound, that sound and certain ranges and different pitch. Within that I try to find a rhythm and play the voice as if it was a horn.

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The most profound memory I have from my childhood is burning down my house at 6 years old.

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I like that the hard-core ruffians, the street thugs come up to me and say, ‘Man, you killed it with Adele.’

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There probably won’t be an animated The Roots or Black Thought as there was, say, an animated Michael Jackson when ‘The Jackson 5’ cartoon show was on when we were kids.

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I used to be a Def Jam artist. I was – I survived Def Jam.

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We record in the spirit of the Berry Gordy camp and Gamble & Huff, where people were writing up to a dozen quality songs within a day because the competition was that hard.

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To me I think leadership is activism. It’s giving back to your community, it’s investing in oneself, and you know women and children.

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Passyunk Productions is our film & tv production company. The name comes from a street in Philly, Passyunk Avenue, where the concept of The Roots was born, as Ahmir and I started out busking on the corner of 5th & Passyunk back in the early ’90s.

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The Evolution of Greatness‘ was an amazing experience, and it’s something that we hope to have been a steppingstone for us to come back and not only do more NBA All-Star performances, but do halftime performances at events like the Super Bowl.

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I think poor folks are the only people who cannot afford – financially and otherwise – to be sick.

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I feel like I’ve been around for such a long time, as a writer and as an artist, that I need to sort of speak to the way that my perception of the world has sort of changed.

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I’m not driven by the spotlight and I’m not that outgoing.

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

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For some music, lyrically, the best move is to keep it simple in what it is that you are saying, and just kind of come across in your rhythm and the way that you lock in on the music.

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Black Thought Quotes

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