Quote

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

Babatunde Adebimpe

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Babatunde Adebimpe
Social
Talented
Painter
Workers
Musician
Writer
Side
Sides
Psychiatrist
Father
Worker

More quotes by Babatunde Adebimpe

Image
Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.
Babatunde Adebimpe
Image
If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.
Babatunde Adebimpe
Image
One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite - there's only lukewarm carrots back there.
Babatunde Adebimpe
Image
The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.
Babatunde Adebimpe
Image
Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I'm in my thirties or whatever. But I also think it's the rare band that doesn't, like, turn into something else.
Babatunde Adebimpe
Image
When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.
Babatunde Adebimpe
Image
I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.
Babatunde Adebimpe
Image
I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek - this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were painting, some were writing. Any plans you had were kind of like a plan for the next two months.
Babatunde Adebimpe
Image
A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.
Babatunde Adebimpe
Image
If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.
Babatunde Adebimpe
Image
Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart - you don't think about them as bands they're just the soundtrack of your life.
Babatunde Adebimpe
Image
It's insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, You could run off with me right now! I'm like, It's cool, I think I'm gonna go read.
Babatunde Adebimpe
Image
Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.
Babatunde Adebimpe
Image
I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don't want to be around basic human bullshit.
Babatunde Adebimpe
Image
The cynicism doesn't come across in the final it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.
Babatunde Adebimpe
Image
I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing.
Babatunde Adebimpe
Image
Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.
Babatunde Adebimpe
Image
I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.
Babatunde Adebimpe
Image
There was something in me, even leaving fifth grade, that hit me and said, I have to get out of here. I don't know where, and I don't know what else I can do but I'm really not going to end up like any of these people.
Babatunde Adebimpe
Image
I know that being upset without having an avenue to fix anything is a real hard place to be in for too long. But it's even worse thinking that it'll go away if you just ignore it.
Babatunde Adebimpe