Stephen W. Thompson quotes

“So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and, you know, and folk music.”
-- Stephen W. Thompson

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“I would never want to discourage anyone from listening to the news, heaven forfend. But I thought, you know, when I'm recommending music to people I like to recommend stuff that I think they'll like.”
-- Stephen W. Thompson

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“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

“We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.”

“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”

“Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without”

“Shoot eagles on the Jack Nicklaus course, Porsche with the triple exhaust, Seats soft like a midget's cough...”

“Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.”

“There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.”

“That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.”

Source : Carsten Jensen (2011). “We, the Drowned”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.”

“Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.”