Top 84 Quotes & Sayings by Daveed Diggs - Page 2

TV is really about keeping things fresh and making sure you have the most energy possible for these very short spurts of time.

Clipping is a very specific, concept-y thing. We have all these rules: we don't sample drums. We create all our own sounds. I don't speak in the first person. We come from a background of experimental music like John Cage... Philip Glass.

I miss doing a straight play.

Hip-hop was indifferent to Broadway. We didn't need Broadway, but I think Broadway needed hip-hop.

I warm up a lot harder for a Clipping show than I ever did for 'Hamilton.'

Learning how to get a point across is pretty useful in any situation.

Everybody from the Bay has a superiority complex because we're dope.

I've always been a fan of 'Black-ish.'

Typically, my advice to young artists is not to wait for someone to allow you to do the thing. Just do the thing, and they'll catch up.

Broadway was weird.

I didn't know a single musical soundtrack, really, growing up. Nobody listened to musicals. That wasn't a thing I did.

Some people get a Broadway show, and that's their end game, and they want to sit there for as long as possible. And some people have other things they want to do with their life.

I'm an artist, so days don't start on any regular time.

I've always gravitated toward technical music in general. I love jazz fusion.

Being on stage, I know my function. I just do the thing.

I've always been very supported. I've never really been sad. I've just been broke. They are very different things.

I get to say 'no' to a lot of things. That, for an artist, is crazy.

There's this thing about authenticity when you rap, right? Whether or not it's real, it has to feel real.

All the way on the West Coast, never having seen a Broadway show, it was like, 'They don't want me. There's nothing there for me.' I'd come to New York a lot and never even tried to see a Broadway show. There was no reason for me to do that.

College was the first time I felt I really had to choose who my friends were.

Using something that is really painful, generally, as the percussive element for a beat, I think is cool.

That's what hip-hop is - it's about meeting the music where you are, and then you add on top of that. It's about coming at it with your full self.

We're very used to seeing a huge diversity of white people. You never just expect two white people on TV to feel the same way.

I call myself a nerd all the time.