Quotes by Isaac Hayes

• A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
• Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it's because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.
• If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
• Know the business, learn the business, own something.
• There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.