All Quotes

Randy Newman and I grew up together in Los Angeles. We are both products of the film studio era. Randy is one of the great songwriters of our time and one of the fun people to be with.
‐‐ Leonard Slatkin

Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.
‐‐ Donald Fagen

Randy said I could call him for anything, Paula said that she loved me and said how much of a star I was. Simon was like, keep up the good work and I'll have nothing to worry about.
‐‐ LaToya London

Randy Wittman told me not to shoot 3-pointers. That got me very uncomfortable. There were certain labels tagged on me very early in my career, spots on the floor where I felt uncomfortable.
‐‐ Kevin Love

Range Rovers are the greenest cars on the road.
‐‐ Peter Hargreaves

Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
‐‐ Carl Hagelin

Rank and file Democrats are very patriotic. They love this country and support the military.
‐‐ Dick Mountjoy

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
‐‐ Peter Drucker

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
‐‐ Norman Ralph Augustine

Ranking among the greatest Christmas movie classics, 'It's a Wonderful Life' tells a beautiful story about the priceless value of relationships.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

Rankings are not so important. I am only focused on winning tournaments.
‐‐ Saina Nehwal

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
‐‐ Stanley Crouch

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.
‐‐ Archie Shepp

Rap ain't out there for everybody; everybody can't be a rapper. Everybody can't be a singer; anybody can't just be a songwriter, but it may - there's some profession out there you can be in.
‐‐ Juicy J

Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.
‐‐ John McWhorter

Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.
‐‐ Hal David

Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way. And I grew up in rap and movies the same way.
‐‐ Jay-Z

Rap has so many possibilities that need to be explored. There are different factions of rap, but some are in a rut. Rap doesn't have to be about boosting egos and grabbing your crotch and dissing women. There's a way to make political and social issues interesting and entertaining to the young rap audience.
‐‐ Michael Franti

Rap helps me connect emotionally.
‐‐ Ben Horowitz

Rap in general has never been my steez, but I like it.
‐‐ Kesha

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.
‐‐ Method Man

Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.
‐‐ Ice Cube

Rap is definitely a youthful expression.
‐‐ Mekhi Phifer

Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.
‐‐ Vanilla Ice

Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.
‐‐ Cheryl James

Rap is just somebody getting something off his chest. That's all it is.
‐‐ Ice Cube

Rap is just to me very annoying.
‐‐ James Hetfield

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.
‐‐ Rita Dove

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
‐‐ Bette Midler

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
‐‐ David Lee Roth

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.
‐‐ Ajay Naidu

Rap is supposed to be about keeping it real and not relinquishing your roots in the community. Without that, it's just posturing. Somebody who claims to speak for the 'hood don't need no private jet.
‐‐ Chuck D

Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
‐‐ Harmony Korine

Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.
‐‐ Emmanuel Jal

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.
‐‐ Kim Gordon

Rap music is the only vital form of music introduced since punk rock.
‐‐ Kurt Cobain

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
‐‐ Alexander McQueen

Rap now is multi-generational, which has its own issues. My son is a big Cudi fan, but he does not like talking to me about Kid Cudi.
‐‐ Lyor Cohen

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
‐‐ David Foster Wallace

Rap was my drug.
‐‐ Eminem

Rap was started by black people and, thus, is at the foundation of black culture. So people cannot always wrap their minds around someone like me being inspired by it. But if you listen to the things we're saying, they're authentically us.
‐‐ Awkwafina

'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.
‐‐ Jason Scott Lee

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.
‐‐ Fiona Apple

Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.
‐‐ Freda Adler

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.
‐‐ Chris Hedges

Raphael Saadiq said to me, quite often, that Chuck D was his history teacher. And so he got a lot from the music, things that he wasn't getting maybe in school. And I feel the same way with regards to Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder.
‐‐ Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.
‐‐ David Suzuki

'Rapper's Delight' was done in 17 minutes. Just one take, no mistakes, and it went to press from there. The record went platinum in 8 days.
‐‐ Big Bank Hank

Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy.
‐‐ Drake

Rappers should just be able to perform what they create and satisfy the people that like and love them.
‐‐ Chuck D