Top 128 Quotes & Sayings by Boots Riley - Page 3

When my daughter was born, that was the first time I cried from happiness.

I had no idea how much the stuff I was doing was affecting people outside Oakland. At the time, also, hip hop wasn't able to tour because all these clubs that let hip hop come in now, they would never have let hip hop come in.

I think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think.

I thought there were too many songs about people's personal lives.

I lived in Detroit until I was six. My older sister was living with us, and she listened to the Ohio Players and Stevie Wonder, so I grew up listening to stuff like that.

It's usually important to me to get my idea out first because a lot of times my ideas will seem weird to musicians.

All of a sudden it became that hip hop didn't used to be about partying; hip hop used to be about putting out a message.

A lot of people heard about gin and juice for the first time from Snoop Dogg, but it was nothing new in rap music, and it was nothing new in the black community.