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Taken together, our songs are like a mural of our lives.
Vernon Reid
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As far as guitar goes, it's weird to have such a challenging activity in my life for so long - I love it. It kicks my ass every day.
Vernon Reid
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In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.
Vernon Reid
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Just like there's a hole in the ozone layer, there's a hole in the musical ecological layer [wrt lack of successful "conscious" music]... 'Traditional' music was brand new at one time... When you hear R&B today, do you believe it?
Vernon Reid
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Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.
Vernon Reid
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PE is the sound of naked defiance.
Vernon Reid
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W. Kamau Bell is in the vanguard of a new era of American comedy for an unsettling, troubling, and strangely hopeful time. Firmly in the fearless tradition of Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, & Chris Rock. Comedy as common sense purged of the absurd hypocrisy that is Our America.
Vernon Reid