#si

I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#become #being #best #business #businessman

Look at music for what it's worth around the world and not just America. In other countries, people are still buying CDs and going to record stores. But in America, it's all about digital. The game is breaking down. But, look at me, you need to know how to play the game the right way. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#america #around #breaking #buying #cds

I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both. ↗

— Bob Dole

#how #i #know #lose #many

I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#attack #business #country #exporting #fear

Peter Baltes was the best bassist I ever played with. ↗

— Don Dokken

#best #ever #i #peter #played

I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#directed #experiment #expression #find #got

We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more. ↗

— Fred Frith

#been #business #gravity #me #more

So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#cycle #down #drum #going #groove

The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it. ↗

— Thomas Dolby

#cable #companies #computer #designers #enormous

The people that I represent in Illinois care passionately about protecting open space and safeguarding our nation's natural treasures, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. ↗

— Robert Dold

#arctic #arctic national wildlife refuge #care #i #illinois