Quotes About Values

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values.

You are what you love, not who loves you.

Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain depth.

I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.

I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going to remember about a person.

Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?

If you will show me the songs which a people or a community sing, then I will tell you the character of that community.

Secular music was not allowed in our household.

Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

In traditional societies, nature was seen as one's wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

How you do anything is how you do everything. Your "character" or "nature" just refers to how you handle all the day-to-day things in life, no matter how small.

You don't want your kids to hear songs of this nature... But you take em to the movies to watch Schwarzenegger!