Back In The Day Quotes

I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.

Back in the day, when I was starting out, I’d get five or 10 emails and I’d respond to every one. But after my third or fourth book it got too time-consuming.

Today we’ve learned to celebrate mediocrity. Back in the day we had creative artists; today we have created artists.

I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.

Newton had a very good description of gravity, back in the day, and then Einstein came along and dug a little bit deeper. Science is like peeling an onion. You go deeper and deeper and deeper, and it doesn’t stop. It’s not like you will get to a right answer.

Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn’t hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vibe. There was performance and then there was the song, and that was all that you had.

Now with Pro Tools, you can play with layers and 100s and 100s of tracks. When we used to do it back in the day, you had one shot, or you would have to wipe it and carry on over that track.

I’m a SoundCloud, online kind of artist. It’s not like back in the day when everyone was like linking up physically to do music. But with the album, I did have my first experience with meeting with a producer and us making things from scratch.

Just to be able to release an album back in the day when I came out was very gratifying. Most people were not given the opportunity.

I’m a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are. You know if you think about Scorsese back in the day when he was making Taxi Driver, or Coppola or Frankenheimer, Sidney Lumet, they’re making films where you witness violence in a real way.

I feel like you have to use your energy, you have to use your resources to help those who don’t have a voice. Whereas back in the day, you could say, “I didn’t know about this. What was I supposed to do? One person can’t make a difference.” No, like, none of that’s valid. You can make a difference, and you do have a voice.

Back in the day, a pair of tight jeans was enough to earn a girl a bad reputation. Now slutty has gone Main Street.

One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they’re viewed as proprietary.

Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, Id be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that thats the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because Ive always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

I turned down a lot of reality shows in the past, but MTV, back in the day, was just the coolest with Cribs to Pimp My Ride.