I’m back – now watch this!’ It all boils down to the music. The mask is a slight theme for people to enjoy, and it adds mystery.
MF DOOMI make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
More MF DOOM Quotes
-
-
I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.
MF DOOM -
The ‘Doom’ thing is to be able to come at things with a different point of view. I decided the mask would just add to the mystique of the character as well as make Doom stand out.
MF DOOM -
Hmm, should I stay on the underground when everybody else is selling out?’ Nowadays, you can just do it – have your name-brand clothes, do songs with rock n’ rollers – and it’s not considered selling out.
MF DOOM -
I have no friends here apart from the dudes at my record label, and I didn’t go to school with no one.
MF DOOM -
The song ‘Bite the Thong’ in particular, with Damon Albarn, really encapsulates the whole dilemma of, ‘
MF DOOM -
I get that mainly from novels and that style of writing or movies where there’s multiple characters who carry the storyline.
MF DOOM -
You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn’t mean the writer himself is crazy.
MF DOOM -
I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can’t.
MF DOOM -
We all tend to be in the same circles – people like my Wu-Tang brothers, or Black Thought from The Roots.
MF DOOM -
I’m always trying to show versatility. I’m juggling, and I’m flipping fire, and I’m chewing gum and rhyming at the same time… on a unicycle, while playing the drums.
MF DOOM -
Everybody nowadays rhymes, but out of the people that really, really do it well, it’s still a small community of artists.
MF DOOM -
I can’t perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it’ll distract from the whole persona.
MF DOOM -
I might as well use it to control the story. So why not do something like throw a mask on?
MF DOOM -
I’m doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye.
MF DOOM -
A visual always brings a first impression. But if there’s going to be a first impression.
MF DOOM