Quotes About Relevance

If your work doesn't speak to people, it's beyond comprehension and risible, but if people engage with it, you become tarred with the brush of populism.

If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people.

I don't want people to confuse me as an MC that talk about nothing.

Sometimes the person furthest away from the audience doesn't connect with them as much.

If my music has power, I don't have to hashtag anything. If it has to connect with someone, it will. That has been my experience.

People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

If you show you're human and have something to say, people will connect with you.

You got to have an emotional connect with the audience who watch you.

Everything's connected, and everything has meaning if you look for it.

I love performing, and connecting with an audience never gets old for me, but it does get old for me when my audience is just only interested in something they've already heard.

There's nothing more important than having a personal connection with your audience.

To me, it's important to try and make an emotional connection with the audience.

'Bad and Boujee' connects with everybody.

As soon as I have the idea, I need to create as quickly as possible, because it's what's going on in society, and that's what connects me to my audience.

I remember rather little of my life, and what I do remember is of small consequence.

We have to make conservatism cool and exciting again.

Conservatism accomplished a lot of its goals in the latter part of the 20th century. What does 21st-century conservatism look like?

Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.

I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.

A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

Bob Dylan is someone that - I don't care how long into the future it is - somebody will still play Bob Dylan. He will always survive.

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

The one amazing thing about 'Jack' is that I did it in 2001, you know, and it still survived. There's something about it that's connected with people.

I think pop culture would have survived without me!