Musician Quotes

Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.

Fleetwood Mac has been pretty truthful. Open about what we do. We've always done it from the inside out. Versus being pressured from the outside and changing the inside. And that's our story.

At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.

They think the banjo can only be happy, but that's not true.

So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.

I think it is very ironic that most people think that the banjo is a southern white instrument. It came from Africa and even for the first years that white people played banjo they would put on blackface.

I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.

I'm a real big celebrity. I'm this megastar.

I'll tell you one thing you can't do: you can't put your shoes on, then your socks on.

I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.

I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.

I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.

I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!

I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.

I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.

I know I have a hit show on my hands.

I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.

I grew up playing about 15 instruments and the way that I was able to accomplish that was by cutting my classes, hanging out in the band room all day, and going from one instrument to the next to the next, until I learned how to play everything by ear.

I got my degree in culinary arts in 1978.

I got a way to get through to kids. I try to take that and use that to my advantage. If we work on the kids right now, I'm telling you, they'll be making less mistakes, the jails will be gettin' less full. It's all about what we do with the kids.

I got a lot happening, a whole lot, and it's not always easy being me.

I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.

Honestly, Flav is not much of a video game player these days. BUT, I used to spend hours on Time Crisis. I beat all levels, man.

Hip-hop is when you have crowd participation; when you chant at the audience and they chant back at you; when you wave your hands in the air like you just don't care; or some breakdancing. Everything today is just low-beat, real bass-y, bass-y, good rap records.

Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.

Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.

Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any cr