Aloe Blacc famous quotes

06-16-2025

Hip-hop educated me about other forms of music, because it sampled from all different styles.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Hip Hop #Style #Different
We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Desire #Needs #Eras
Compassion can change a lot of things, including the world. Young people especially need to know that, because they're the future.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Compassion #People #Needs
I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Opportunity #Past #Political
In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Song #Writing #Thinking
Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Song #Depressing #Thinking
Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind of tell based on what music a person listens to what kind of person they'll be pretty much for the rest of their life.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Self #People #Identity
People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Evil #People #Tolerance
We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't recognize or acknowledge the power of messages and how deeply affected we all are by the messages we receive from the media.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Thinking #Media #Mind
When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made the packaging and did the distribution, all myself. Now I understand what everyone's jobs are, who is doing them right, and who isn't.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Song #Jobs #Packaging
I continue to write songs that are topically related to social, political and economic issues of our time, but I also recognize that onstage, I have a lot of fun and audiences have a lot of fun, so I'm trying to package the messages in music and sounds that are fun to perform and fun to listen to.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Song #Fun #Writing
What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Needs #Shelter #Entertainment
Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Art #Stars #Tired
America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Thinking #Media #America
Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Rocks #Hip Hop #Soul
I've become more introverted as I've got older. I used to be an outgoing person who joked around a lot, but as the amount of energy I expend by sharing my music has increased, I like to balance it by spending time by myself and recuperating.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Balance #Energy #Spending Time
In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Real #School #Psychology
People need to spread love towards strangers. We all bleed the same blood and we are all part of a global community now.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Blood #People #Community
I think a lot of self-identity and inner-personal development is hampered by consumerism and capitalism because we see ourselves as a reflection of the TV, rather than as a reflection of the people who are around us, truly.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Reflection #Thinking #Self
You can feel a lot of things, and that's okay. Channel that into your passion.
-- Aloe Blacc

#Passion #Okay #Feels
So wake me up when it's all over When I'm wiser and I'm older All this time I was finding myself And I didn't know I was lost
-- Aloe Blacc

#Finding Myself #Lost #Wiser

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