Ryan Lewis Quotations

Music is a fluid art form that picks up echoes of the past and weaves them into a new sound. The distinct sounds of the past merge together to create what we know today as gospel, western, folk, or jazz.

Glen Carbon is still eligible to receive the exhibit. With its cutting of personnel at the museum, it is causing us to review the application. We need to make sure that there is going to be enough personnel support and community support to back up this exhibit.

The aim of the exhibition is to show members of the community how local components have helped shape and influence music.

That's what I'm here for ... to make Dan work for his position so he doesn't get in a comfort zone.

We close just because of the lack of business. It's really been slow the last couple of nights.

Coming out of the Northwest and that environment to shoot hip-hop videos, it's a little atypical of a place to be, you know.

Not having staff does not disqualify them, rather it's just making sure the resources are there.

You want to make sure there is enough volunteer and personnel support to utilize the Museum on Main Street program to the best of its potential.

I have an AIDS ribbon tattooed on my arm.

For me personally, to hop onboard and use the amazing success and blessings in my life to pull off something like the 30/30 Project is awesome.

When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.

Some songs go super-quick; some take a really long time.

Everyone has their parent's [music] collection which is strongly influences what you listen to as a kid. You have no choice. You have to listen to whatever they're bumpin. I grew up with what they listened to a lot.

In 1984, my mom gave birth to my older sister, Teresa. Due to a complicated delivery, she needed a blood transfusion, and at that moment, my mom had HIV+ blood put into her body.

I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

Hip-hop music was something I grew up with, it was something that I loved since I was a little kid, and it's something that I chose to partake in an early age.

I graduated in 2009, which - if you think back to where the economy was at that time - was an interesting time to graduate.

I was always the type of drug user that I had no moderation. When I was smoking and drinking, I was full on smoking and drinking. And I am also the type of drug user where I do smoke and drink, there's no creativity in terms of my writing process. I would just stare at the paper for hours and nothing would get done.

The world is an unfair place because of bullying. A lot of parents loose their children because of bullying next time think twice before bullying someone.