Top 307 Quotes & Sayings by Russell Simmons - Page 6

Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.

Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.

Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.

There are so many urban pop ideas that are underserved, and I think Hollywood doesn't see us and misses the opportunity to integrate.

Being materialistic is part of the hip-hop community's nature, because jazz and blues and rock 'n' roll, when they started out in the urban communities, were about the American Dream, and the lack of opportunity in that structure. So they talked about everything - uplifting and getting what is perceived as success in America.

Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.

Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness.