I think if you’re open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you’re closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.
RUSSELL SIMMONSI 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.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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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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You have to be present, awake and happy now.
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I think when you’re very dedicated to something and you’re engaged fully, you become a giver.
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Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
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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.
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Learn to let your thoughts exist on their own without getting too involved in them.
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I don’t like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel a certain way. The one on the radio at the present moment could be the one that’s most inspiring, because it’s at that second that you’re aware of “the infinite everything.”
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The seconds of presence are where most inspiration comes. There are sunsets that promote it.
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Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.
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I would like to employ more people but I don’t want to empower my charities at the cost of exploiting people or doing things that are not useful, so I’m working on that.
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The less you need, the more you attract.
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American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
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Donald Trump’s not politically correct. Although you are running for president, you should be politically correct. But there is also the expression of an artist.
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Needing nothing really is the ultimate goal. And to have nothing to do with things.
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My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.
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I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
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Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.
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I can’t pay my [bills]. I can’t go to work. My car is out of gas.
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Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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I don’t miss my prayers and I don’t miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.
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The artists are now big brands.
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I 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.
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You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.
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I’m always surrounded by smart talented people. I had talented partners. Stan Latham for one. Talent scouts.
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If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.
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I don’t fault business. If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That’s why legislation and regulations are necessary.
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