FastSaying

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they can't articulate.


Mos Def

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I met Mos Def around that time but I didn't hook up with him until I was about 17 or 18.
TALIB KWELI I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.
MOS DEF People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, bot...
TALIB KWELI I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really...
MORRIS CHESTNUT So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being...
TALIB KWELI Look at music: I've always loved hiphop and rap, and now there's this whole progressive move...
RYAN PHILLIPPE Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know a...
DAN SAVAGE I realized crime isn't the only way you can judge people. People can do good things, and people ...
TAKERU KOBAYASHI Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years. It's a name that the streets taugh...
MOS DEF I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by...
MOS DEF Mos Def is one of the most creative, intelligent human beings I've had the opportunity to work w...
JILL SCOTT I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I on...
MEGAN FOX African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to coll...
MOS DEF What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective end...
MOS DEF Reckless capitalism kills black people.
MOS DEF Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring ...
MOS DEF You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're e...
MOS DEF I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that...
MOS DEF Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like wi...
MOS DEF I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity sho...
MOS DEF That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It sho...
MOS DEF If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just k...
MOS DEF But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.
MOS DEF I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
MOS DEF Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close togeth...
MOS DEF I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic....
MOS DEF You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States a...
MOS DEF Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught...
MOS DEF I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.
MOS DEF With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and...
MOS DEF To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as...
MOS DEF I've always loved rhyming. I love language.
MOS DEF You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.
MOS DEF I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion...
MOS DEF You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.
MOS DEF My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.
MOS DEF It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a ...
MOS DEF I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.
MOS DEF And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
MOS DEF People go into a gallery, and they're afraid to express their opinions about art. No one's a...
WILLIAM QUIGLEY I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write ab...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER Most of us don't think about miracles that we could possibly do. We don't have a vocabulary ...
BRUCE WILKINSON People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really...
DAMIEN HIRST The artwork provides inspiration. It provides hope and also gives meaning. It makes sense out of thi...
ELLEN MORYL The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know,...
PAUL KRUGMAN Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they pre...
ANN AGUIRRE I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no cour...
ELTON JOHN No. 1, these guys out here on this field. They keep my energy level up. They try hard, they don'...
FRANK ROBINSON As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other...
GRAHAM SWIFT Profanity is proof of ones lack of aptitude to articulate the English language with intelligence, va...
WILLIAM E BRANDLE The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.
DAVID BAILEY I don't really care about audio quality. If people saw some of the ways that I record stuff, the...
DEV HYNES Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a lea...
DAVID WHYTE A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic ...
Q-TIP Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better th...
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS There are a lot of things you can say about the Bush tax cuts, but you can't say they didn't...
PHIL GRAMM She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the ...
GAIL CARRIGER People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what the...
ERIC DAVIS I can't write things. I'm embarrassed all the time about that, particularly if people don...
DANNEL MALLOY Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communi...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, ...
CONOR OBERST We could build just about anything that you could dream of. But that's not the question. The thi...
TIM COOK Mathematicians don't like it when they're associated with mental illness and sort of bristle...
ETHAN CANIN Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for p...
PETER YORK Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
EVAN ESAR Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
EVAN ESAR Our study provides beginning evidence for the important role art therapy can play in reducing sympto...
JUDITH PAICE Education does loads of things for girls that won't surprise you at all - it provides self-estee...
RICHARD E. ROBBINS I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.
DRIES VAN NOTEN A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can&#...
VICKY MCCLURE As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what peopl...
FREDDIE HIGHMORE I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, ...
CAIO FONSECA You can do fascinating things with the tricks memory can play and tell. People can come to believe t...
PAULA HAWKINS Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. ...
MARY OLIVER I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or st...
TOM PERROTTA Everybody can't have the life of a normal, average American person in India - they can't. So...
ARUNDHATI ROY I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar&#...
SAFFRON BURROWS You can't geek out with a lot of people about Linda Manz.
RYAN GOSLING I've made apologies to people I needed to, but I can't apologise to people I don't know ...
SIENNA MILLER Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE The Word Power Challenge provides students with essential building blocks for effective communicatio...
KATHLEEN BORDELON Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
IGGY AZALEA My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,...
JIM CRACE People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.
HELEN GARNER Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they do...
WILL ROGERS The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, t...
MARTIN SCORSESE I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
BALTHUS People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the wee...
CARLO PONTI I don't worry about the things I can't change.
FERRAN ADRIA Much good art got made while money ruled; I like a lot of it, and hardship and poverty aren't vi...
JERRY SALTZ People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't...
MICHAEL JACKSON A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and ...
ZACHARY LEVI I think it's funny how excited people can get about things I say that don't have anything to...
RON POPE You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know a...
ABRAHAM A. RIBICOFF All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and ...
ARUNDHATI ROY A lot of people in film run around with a facade and use the right vocabulary and think they're ...
LARRY WILCOX Es gibt keinen Grund warum Kinder Chaucer [engl. Dichter des 14.Jhd., Anm.d.Red.] nicht genauso gut ...
STAR TREK I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. ...
LUIS WALTER ALVAREZ All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.
ANDRE BALAZS I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will ...
ZIGGY MARLEY

More Mos Def

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to coll...
MOS DEF What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective end...
MOS DEF Reckless capitalism kills black people.
MOS DEF Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring ...
MOS DEF You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're e...
MOS DEF I'm not shy about heated debate or passionate discourse, but when people get crazy or rude, that...
MOS DEF Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like wi...
MOS DEF I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity sho...
MOS DEF That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It sho...
MOS DEF If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just k...
MOS DEF But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.
MOS DEF I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
MOS DEF Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close togeth...
MOS DEF I'm a passionate person. I'm a lot of things, like most people are. Most people are dynamic....
MOS DEF You have to be an extremist to believe that you're gonna be the president of the United States a...
MOS DEF I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by...
MOS DEF I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.
MOS DEF Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years. It's a name that the streets taugh...
MOS DEF Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught...
MOS DEF I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.
MOS DEF With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and...
MOS DEF To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as...
MOS DEF I've always loved rhyming. I love language.
MOS DEF You want to know how to rhyme, then learn how to add. It's mathematics.
MOS DEF I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion...
MOS DEF You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.
MOS DEF My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.
MOS DEF It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a ...
MOS DEF I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.
MOS DEF And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
MOS DEF Pour Some Sugar on Me,
DEF LEPPARD Drive In Saturday.
DEF LEPPARD It's a mantle we don't deserve. That's not what we're about. We do big pop songs with bombast -- and...
DEF LEPPARD We sit on the fence between hard rock and pop,
DEF LEPPARD ya better come inside
when you're ready to
but no chance if ya don't wanna dance
you...
DEF LEPPARD