When you get above the line, you're above the line. So my thing is I just want to make music where I am always above that line.

- Adrian Younge

I think that being a film composer, someone that gets it and actually applies the music, it allows you to open up a spectrum of feeling. You're now a…

- Adrian Younge

Hip-hop has permeated pop culture for decades. For a long time, though, it seemed to permeate it in a such a way that it never really got its just du…

- Adrian Younge

When people score films, the job is to be visual. When people make music, it's about evoking feeling. It's great when you get both feelings and being…

- Adrian Younge

When you're composing for somebody, that means you have a boss. You have to do what it takes to, at the end of the day, appease them.

- Adrian Younge

Blaxploitation films were black films targeting black people. They were films made to appeal to a culture in a way that was supposed to be unfiltered.

- Adrian Younge

I don't have any computers in my studio, it's all analog tape. All analog tape, all old equipment, I mean my mics are like from the 60's and early 70…

- Adrian Younge

I try to make classics. I don't try to make things that aren't good. It's always a pleasure to see that people care about the kind of music I'm makin…

- Adrian Younge

The easy answer is to say that it's a part for black people to see black heroes, but to me it's important to young Mexican kids to see a black hero.

- Adrian Younge