Harris: Suppressing an artist's background diminishes their creative output
Michael "Harry-O" Harris · The Story Of Death Row Records Co-Founder Harry-O (#421) · Feb 17, 2023 · at 48:44
Michael 'Harry-O' Harris, co-founder of Death Row Records, discusses managing turbulent creative talent and explains why background conditioning shapes artistic output.
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“In music, or any creative, I just think that you have to take people where they are, you know, and so what happens is, if you take away something, it takes away something. And so, we all get to elevate in life. And so, who you were and what you came from and the condition that, the way you were conditioned to see the world, all of that had something to do with the way that music was made.”
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