I don’t care if it’s classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it’s all dance music.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAYou treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
More Afrika Bambaataa Quotes
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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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Hip-hop has different elements dealing with music, rap, graffiti art, b-boys (what you call break boys)… and also dealing with culture, and a whole movement dealing with wisdom and understanding, as well as peace unity and fun.
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If they think that there’s a lot of racism going on then there’s another Hip Hop artist who’s gonna come out and speak their mind.
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I’d like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go.
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Powers that be can’t stay in control if you have everybody in love and in tune with each other and with the planet, and in tune with the electrons and the dark matter that’s moving at the speed of light.
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All these names we’re using now are just an illusion made to keep us fighting each other.
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We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
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You put music in categories because you need to define a sound, but when you don’t play it on your so-called radio stations that claim to be R&B or jazz or whatever.
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That’s the beauty of sampling: taking the old sound and recreating it and making something new, or bringing back the old sounds, mixed with some heavy grooves and beats, so people can remember. “Oh, I remember that, back in the day.”
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Thanks to my traveling, and keeping up from place to place, and pushing our ideology – peace, love, unity, and having fun – it has worked.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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Don’t get caught up on ‘I’m brown, black, white, red, blue, whatever.’ You gotta ask, what were you called before 1492?
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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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