I don’t believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God’s way of communicating with us.
RUSSELL SIMMONSYou’ll see a lot of funny stuff, you’ll see a lot of daddy knows best stuff, you’ll see a lot of me and my wife trying to hold the family together.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
-
-
Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
There’s one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
It’s all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself as a lawyer, go to the library and start learning the law. If you want to be a rapper, start rapping and get out there. Live your life as if you already are where you want to be.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
Happy can make you money, but money can’t make you happy.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It’s the most mainstream thing there is.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That’s why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
Money doesn’t make u happy .. But happy makes you money.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
No matter where you’re from or what you’ve done, you’re never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
I think it’s very important. I’ve gone into prisons to meditate with inmates. It’s something I plan to do with Tim Robbins soon.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you… happiness is your natural state.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
The difference between blues, jazz, rock n’ roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It’s scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
A poet or a comedian can say what’s on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
Learn to let your thoughts exist on their own without getting too involved in them.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
I don’t use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it’s never because I use my brain.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
And that’s how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
I think I’m less afraid of failure than some others.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
I’m a full disclosure kind of person.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that’s been missing.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
RUSSELL SIMMONS