52 Boots Riley Quotes for You to Enjoy

Boots Riley

American Musician

Born: Apr 1, 1971

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For me, the association with rock is one of force and anger and aggression. And definitely, in the past, I've made songs that attack like that. But what I usually try to appeal to is peoples' everyday feelings, the things that they're going through as they deal with the system on a one-to-one level. Boots Riley

Me Anger People Try Made Feelings Past Everyday Definitely System Attack Through Songs Like Force Deal Rock Going In The Past Aggression Appeal Level Things Association

If I wasn't rapping about politics, then I might have been just another person trying to sell albums, and I might have sounded like everyone else out there. Boots Riley

Politics Else Everyone Everyone Else Out Rapping About Like Another Been Sell Person Trying Just Might Then Albums

You can't co-opt labor issues if you are in the working class. Boots Riley

You Class Issues Labor Working Working-Class

No one has a copyright on working-class struggles. Boots Riley

Struggles No-One Working-Class Copyright

When we were doing shows in the mid-'90s, the audiences were 95% black. What's happened now is the gentrification of hip-hop. A lot of cities passed ordinances that made it hard for black audiences to gather in large groups. Clubs are more open to hip-hop now 'cause it's the same crowd that goes to rock shows. Boots Riley

Cause Black Made Cities More Crowd Open Rock Audiences Passed Hip-Hop Doing Were Lot Same Goes Happened Clubs Hard Large Groups Large Groups Shows Now Gather

What I wanted to do is put forth, musically, the idea that there's hope that we can change the system. Boots Riley

Hope Change Musically System Put Idea Wanted Forth

The Box would not play 'Takin' These' because we had a scene where we were taking furniture out of Rockefeller's mansion and giving the stuff out on the street for free. Boots Riley

Free Giving Furniture Out Would Scene Had Taking Stuff Box Because Were Rockefeller Where Mansion Play Street

I used to get worried about writing a love song, because everyone else is doing them, and there are already enough of them out there. But I came to realize that there's a reason for that: Love is powerful, one of the most powerful emotions there is. Boots Riley

Love Love Is Song Writing Emotions Enough Else Everyone Worried Everyone Else Out About Powerful Most Most Powerful Because Doing Came Get Them Realize Used Reason

You can't get much done by yourself. Speaking as someone who made a movie - and it took hundreds of people to make it happen - I can say that. Boots Riley

You Yourself People Made Took Hundreds Hundreds Of People Say Someone Make Make It Happen Get Done Movie Happen Much Speaking Who

I think most people would love for us to be a socialist society. Boots Riley

Love People Think Society Would Most Us Socialist

The crux of our power isn't only in our voice. It is in our economic function in society. Boots Riley

Power Society Our Only Voice Economic Crux Function

Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded. Boots Riley

Impossible Seemed Ideas Making Making Movies Getting As Far As Movies Far

My father is from North Carolina, and he got rid of his drawl really fast. He's very much about speaking correctly, enunciating in certain ways. Boots Riley

Father Carolina Ways Correctly About He Got His Very North North Carolina Much Really Certain Speaking Rid Fast

I chose to do art in the way I always do it, which is with all the crazy contradictions of life in there. Boots Riley

Life Art Crazy Way Always Contradictions Which Chose

I was actually really good at telemarketing. Boots Riley

Good Really Actually

Going to school in San Francisco, you're not going to meet as many people that are making films as you would if you went to film school in New York or L.A. Boots Riley

You People School Films Meet Francisco Would New Making York Going New York San San Francisco Many Film Film School

I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating something more than people can do with prose or just talking. Boots Riley

Art Communication People Words Think Possibility Something More Prose Between Talking Than Just Communicating Extent

There's the part of me that's the organizer, part of me that's the artist, part of me that's the person who, even with those two things, wants to figure out what my place in the world is. How to engage with it and whether my life has any meaning. Boots Riley

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