Quotes by Grandmaster Flash

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I developed the Clock Theory to help me time records; you know, spin the record back two revolutions or whatever and then play the break, spin the other one back two, play, like that.
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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.
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If there is a record I don't have, I haven't heard it yet. My collection is always growing, but I can't really play it anywhere - no promoter is willing to pay for my crates of vinyl to fly with me, so I have a team of people to digitise it all.
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If you think about the history of Hip Hop we've had artist who can talk about from socially significant ideas to something as cool as sneakers.
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I needed a way to have the platter continuously spinning while I'm moving the record back and forth. I went to a fabric store. When I touched this hairy stuff - felt - I found it. I rubbed spray starch on both sides and ironed it until it became a stiff wafer. After that, I was able to stop time.
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I like fixin' up old cars and doing things with my family.
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I'm not big on snacks, but I if do, I like a few M&M's.
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Exactly, especially when you're talking about a music where you can do just about anything. We can talk about just about anything lyrically.
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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.
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A scratch is nothing but the back-cueing that you hear in your ear before you push it out to the crowd.
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