Pharoahe Monch Quotes

The battle thing is very important in hip-hop, but at the same time, I want to sit down and have a beer and listen to Rakim.

You've rarely got an artist that's not being chauffeured into the business by some huge-ass names.

I'm doing what's in my heart at the time.

There needs to be someone who can lead you in the right direction.

There's a need for pop. There's a need for radio. There's also a need to understand the brilliance and the depth of jazz and soul - and what hip-hop can be at its most brilliant and what hip-hop can be at its most simplistic.

Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really last.

New York City gritty committee pity the fool that act shitty in the midst of the calm, the witty.

I mostly write to music, even though I know I sound free-form a lot. Then there are times when I'll have a concept and hold on to it until I come across the right music that makes a marriage.

There are situations where I'm uncomfortable saying, "I'm a hip-hop artist." In some circles, the response is like, "Oh, OK, so... you have whores and your ties are shiny?"

His momma said, Donovan why are you, on the corner of linden and guy R. Brewer?

Kids don't even realize what they're up against.

It mattered what someone did to allow you to have the forum to do what you're doing.

Having the savvy to know what you want to say, how you want to say it, and what music you want to say it over comes with time spent and wisdom gained in a music career.

When new artists come out and they're not being cosigned or some company doesn't have a stake in it, or someone's not getting paid under the table to produce the whole record or bring it to video, the artist really suffers.

Unless somebody who's already eleven thousand times platinum is like, "We're ushering this project in," it's not really gonna pop commercially.

The stuff I'm working on is quite dense. I'm seeing every four bars as a scene in a film.

Man, I would demand that artist come to the table with better variety. I would demand that musicians know music history, not just Hip-Hop, so that we could understand. The better your 'listening ear' is, the better your music will be.

You feel pressured to do what you think the public wants, when in actuality the sales aren't reflecting what the radio is doing. Not in the least bit!

If you holding up the wall then you missing the point

You have to understand the vehicle, the form that allows you to do what you do, and why that is.