My wife Kimora once told me while we were watching “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” that it’s a vegetarian movie because the way that the woman was screaming, “Aaaahhh,” and trying to run away is how every animal you eat reacted at the slaughterhouse.
RUSSELL SIMMONSA clear and focused mind will last a lifetime. Getting your mind in shape is nothing less than the key to sustainable success in the world.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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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 try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
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When the mind is totally still, there’s only bliss. I got a piece of that reality from my first yoga class, from smiling and breathing in every difficult pose. I went, “Oh my God! I’m clear! I love this!”
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That happens to me everyday. I watch my thoughts, not only on the mat, but all through the day.
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I just said let’s get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too.
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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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No one wants to sell to just 12% of the population for the entire length of their careers. It creates a difficult and less-profitable environment. But Hollywood has lived with that limiting mantra, and only a few black stars have managed to break through.
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If you aren’t passionate about a vision, it’s hard to have faith in it.
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It’s very simple: When you’re working your hardest, the world opens up to you.
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You will be a great entrepreneur if you operate with a real sincere wanting to serve.
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Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
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I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what’s on people’s minds and I don’t think it’s any different now.
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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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No matter where you want to go, as long as you follow your path with faith, dedication and hard work, you are going to get there.
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