Disco B still rolls with me now. He's still doing his thing. He does clubs in different places. He was very instrumental in helping me perfect my craft. Grandmaster Flash More Quotes by Grandmaster Flash More Quotes From Grandmaster Flash I'm not big on snacks, but I if do, I like a few M&M's. Grandmaster Flash few big like snacks I don't want to be classified as an old-skool DJ or new-skool DJ. I want to be classified as an all-skool DJ who plays it all. I also want to learn to DJ house music in my own fashion. Grandmaster Flash dj my-own fashion music Conquer your neighbourhood, conquer your city, conquer your country, and then go after the rest of the world. That's my mantra. Grandmaster Flash rest city country world Normal kids in their teens want to go and date girls and do mischievous things, your hormones are jumping around, but I stayed in my bedroom in search of something. Grandmaster Flash search your bedroom want I want to go to - what's that hot country with a lot of money? - Dubai. Grandmaster Flash dubai money hot country As an individual I was known as the DJ or the mixer. Grandmaster Flash mixer dj known individual Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records. Grandmaster Flash new never music song My father was my first inspiration. He had an incredible stereo and a turntable, and I was told not to touch it. But I'd go back and touch it anyway. I gained a respect for the turntables when I was a kid. When I was a teenager, I came up with a 'cueing system' to work the turntables because they didn't have it at that time. Grandmaster Flash respect work time father For anybody to say well this is not Hip Hop and that's not Hip Hop, that is not the way the formula was laid down. It was for the people who were going to continue take anything musically and string it along. Grandmaster Flash say down people way Before this DJ thing, I was hopelessly taking things apart to try to figure out how they worked. I'd go mess around with burned-out cars, with my mom's stereo - I was public enemy #1 in my house for that. So my mom noticed that I was interested in this and decided to send me to school so I'd know what I was doing. Grandmaster Flash dj me mom school I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical items to figure out how they worked before putting them back together, and listening to the music my four older sisters and parents played. Grandmaster Flash parents music listening together All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to. Grandmaster Flash will go know you But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary. Grandmaster Flash style thank-god god art Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public. Grandmaster Flash your you creative writing For instance, if you're playing a record with drums - horns would sound nice to enhance it so you get a record with horns and slip it in at certain times. Grandmaster Flash playing you nice sound For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me. Grandmaster Flash sense us make me Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished. Grandmaster Flash become been creative real I had to go into a studio and compose and write and press up 12 songs in 14 hours. When you're recording a song from scratch it takes you 14 hours to do just one song. Grandmaster Flash just go you song I think what's happening here is, there's a group or maybe one person who is saying this is gonna be the definition and this is what we want to get the kids to do now. Grandmaster Flash person saying think group So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is not Hip Hop or whatever they're doing in LA is not Hip Hop, who are these people to say that? Grandmaster Flash say doing trying people
