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Questlove
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
Actor
Composer
Disc Jockey
Drummer
Film Director
Musician
Record Producer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
?uestlove
Ahmir Thompson
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I hate videos. I'm meticulous on everything from cover art, fonts, productions, mixing. But when it comes to videos, I just feel so defeated.
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It's easy for me to say, Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid.
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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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Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.
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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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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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Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, 1, 2, 3, 4.
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Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.
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I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.
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I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
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There's no such thing as success on an isolated level.
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The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as a musician and engineer.
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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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I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.
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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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My life's goal is to find a happy medium for sampling to be not only legal but for the right parties to benefit from it. There have to be sampling laws. The survival of hiphop is based on that.
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I don't think crack happened by accident. I'm part conspiracy theorist, because you can't develop something that dangerous and have it not be planned.
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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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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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