Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
RUSSELL SIMMONSI want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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Everyone’s goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.
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Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don’t want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it’s the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.
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Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.
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Get your hustle on… Hard work is easy, working out is hard.
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I don’t believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God’s way of communicating with us.
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I’m a full disclosure kind of person.
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I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn’t a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.
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People are afraid of failure – they don’t like to work so hard and have people keep saying, ‘No.’ I think that’s what people fear most.
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The politicians already in office don’t want to change. A few might have it in their hearts to change and to start working for the people, but even some of the most progressive politicians are silent because they know that the candidate with the most money wins.
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That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
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Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
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When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.
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I want people to be free and to be able to express themselves, to find the best ways to say things so that people can digest them.
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You will be a great entrepreneur if you operate with a real sincere wanting to serve.
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If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system?
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