Music Is History
The mind is a creature of labeling and encapsulating and filing things into categories. But this was music that was begging the soul to tell the mind to shut the hell up, turn up the volume, and not worry about what to call anything.
Carlos Santana • The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light
We wanted to take the attention and goodwill we had generated with Things Fall Apart and present a catalog album of everything we were able to do. We wanted to shatter people’s myths, not only about what rap groups could do, but also about what black groups could do. And we wanted to show everyone that our main reason for being was to change.
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson • Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Quest Loves Records, Part I “When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.”™ 1971: Stevie Wonder, Music of My Mind