Vernon Reid Quotes

#1. As far as guitar goes, it's weird to have such a challenging activity in my life for so long - I love it. It kicks my ass every day.

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#2. Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.

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#3. W. Kamau Bell is in the vanguard of a new era of American comedy for an unsettling, troubling, and strangely hopeful time. Firmly in the fearless tradition of Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, & Chris Rock. Comedy as common sense purged of the absurd hypocrisy that is Our America.

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#4. Taken together, our songs are like a mural of our lives.

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#5. Just like there's a hole in the ozone layer, there's a hole in the musical ecological layer [wrt lack of successful "conscious" music] ... 'Traditional' music was brand new at one time ... When you hear R&B today, do you believe it?

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#6. PE is the sound of naked defiance.

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#7. In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.

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