Black Thought

Musician

1975-10-03

Quotes by Black Thought

• I'm in great company and some may say that the underexposure has added to my allure and the staying power of me as a MC and The Roots as a band.

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• I strive for improvement. want to be a master of my craft.

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• I feel like I've been around for such a long time, as a writer and as an artist, that I need to sort of speak to the way that my perception of the world has sort of changed.

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• I mean, I'm no superhero.

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• I feel like visual art, the culinary arts, the theatrical arts - the medium changes, the tools that you use to tell whatever the story changes, but you're still all telling stories.

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• I like that the hard-core ruffians, the street thugs come up to me and say, 'Man, you killed it with Adele.'

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• The Roots want to dip our toes into everything in the arts.

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• So in my personal opinion, I definitely feel like I'm a legendary emcee, and I also feel like we're a legendary brand, which is why I started rebranding ourselves years ago by saying 'The Legendary Roots Crew,' which is how we're introduced on 'The Tonight Show.'

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• The Tonight Show' afforded us the opportunity to work with The Muppets and other 'Sesame Street' characters, and we always had the desire to do something that spoke to young people.

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• I think the true artist - musician, dancer, writer, actor - a true artist is able to sort of articulate pain and tragedy, in a way that sort of expresses what the listener or the beholder may have been feeling but was less able to communicate.

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• It felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders the day I finally finished both verses for 'My Shot.'

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• I feel like the youthful experience is what drives the creativity, and I feel like experience and maturity as an adult, experience as an elder statesman, that refines it.

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