Questlove Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.”
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“To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.”
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“The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.”
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“I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom and just unloading on a class, but I knew to take the scenic route to go to the grocery store to avoid certain elements.”
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“Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling,”
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“I cannot keep a girlfriend longer than seven months. I have 12 jobs. I don't have time for my personal life. I'm fully aware that this is the sacrifice.”
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“When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.”
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“I hate holidays because it's the quietest; it's the most deafening sound in my apartment.”
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“Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.”
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“I keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what shape it is. I'm not the first person to ask that question, or to see how absurd it is to think there's a real answer. Maybe life's a circle...”
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“Part of me would just like to relax and have one job that pays me the amount I need to survive. And another part of me wants the creativity that comes out of struggle and frustration and fear. It's a never-ending cycle, which must be how I want it, on some level.”
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“The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.”
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“I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.”
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“I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.”
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“My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.”
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“In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.”
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“Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.”
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“During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.”
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“I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.”
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“I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.”
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“My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.”
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“In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.”
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“I think all of this—The Roots and DJing included—was meant to prepare me for The Tonight Show.”
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“I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.”
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“Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.”
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“Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.”
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“And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.”
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“How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.”
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“Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of the euphoric exclamations. Every record I put on was like a baptism.”
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“It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.”
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