44 Quotes by Grandmaster Flash

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.

Conquer your neighbourhood, conquer your city, conquer your country, and then go after the rest of the world. That's my mantra.

As an individual I was known as the DJ or the mixer.

I want to go to - what's that hot country with a lot of money? - Dubai.

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.

I named myself Flash many years ago, as I loved the cartoon. Then my own fans said that I should call myself 'Grandmaster,' because of the way I operate turntables. I put the two together and that was it.

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.

For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me.

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.