Brother Ali Quotes
All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average.
Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.
I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.
Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is to write songs about things I feel strongly about.
I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.
The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.
If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.
The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you do this little trick, if you use this little strategy, it'll do it for you.