Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five Quotes

A scratch is nothing but the back-cueing that you hear in your ear before you push it out to the crowd. 
Grandmaster Flash 

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 

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 

Exactly, especially when you're talking about a music where you can do just about anything. We can talk about just about anything lyrically. 
Grandmaster Flash 

Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished. 
Grandmaster Flash 

I had love for Breakout; I had love for Bambaataa. I had love for Kool Herc. 
Grandmaster Flash 

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 

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 

I was also the first DJ to be known for doing acrobatics on the turntables. I would do 360 turns, cutting with my elbows, my mouth and crazy stuff like that. 
Grandmaster Flash 

I'm a little afraid right now because now that it has escalated to someone getting the ultimate punishment which only God is allowed to do, as far as 2Pac dying. No one had a right to have done that. 
Grandmaster Flash 

There were songs that Bambaataa played that were so funky and when I had the privilege of getting to know what they were, I was surprised. 
Grandmaster Flash 

There's gonna always be an element of violence in all genres of music. It's with Rock-n-Roll and all the other genres. 
Grandmaster Flash 

Unfortunately we are arguing amongst each other so much when the bottom line is we don't own anything. We are offspring to a record label owner. 
Grandmaster Flash 

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop. 
Grandmaster Flash 

We can even sing off key, but if it's produced properly it can be a hit. 
Grandmaster Flash 

We gotta stop fighting amongst each other. I think the only rift should be when take it the stage and try to out perform each other. 
Grandmaster Flash 

What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did. 
Grandmaster Flash 

When I was an artist with the group everything was tailor-made, so it was my statement at that time. But watch the hairstyles. Probably the only thing that I regret wearing was Jerry curls. 
Grandmaster Flash