A Quote by F. Murray Abraham
I was a hoodlum. I was a gang member, and art saved my life.
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Me wanting a gang member to have a different life would never be the same as that gang member wanting to have one.
If I was to ask you tonight if you were saved? Do you say 'Yes, I am saved'. When? 'Oh so and so preached, I got baptized and...' Are you saved? What are you saved from, hell? Are you saved from bitterness? Are you saved from lust? Are you saved from cheating? Are you saved from lying? Are you saved from bad manners? Are you saved from rebellion against your parents? Come on, what are you saved from?
I honestly believe art and music saved me. Art and music saved my life. I am blessed.
We will not rest until being a gang member is a miserable, undesirable life.
I'm not really anti-gang - I was a gang member and so was my son. I'm pro-youth, pro-community, pro-family, pro-arts, and pro-peace.
That's the great thing about being in a band: it's a gang for people who are too wimpy to fight. You can create a gang and have an identity and fight for something and stand up for something just by making pop songs. They're my gang members and gang members are for life, and if you try and leave, we execute you. That's the way it goes. A simple bang, back of the head, into the river, and we keep moving on.
Well, first of all if it wasn't for being saved by Jesus, I would not be alive. I would be dead. Some people say Jesus saved their soul... Well, maybe Jesus saved my soul spiritually, but He also saved my life physically. Every aspect of my life today has to do with the fact that Jesus saved my life.
We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.
Music and art well and truly saved my life really - the light switched on when I discovered art.
Art changed my life. I mean, I would say art saved me. I believe that it made me better at handling my life.
I was a gang leader. Although, it was a gang for defensive purposes. It was not a gang to sell drugs.
As an artist, what I'm looking for isn't the answers but the questions. Art saved my life, and I'm sure that it could save the lives of many people. If it's not art, find your place. But never give up.
Art saved my life.
So if you're a gang member and you would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person?
Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about through school. My history of art teacher, who saved my life at Farmington, was obsessed with Bernard Berenson, and I succumbed as well.
Art! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please!
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