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The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.
Questlove
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Questlove
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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Ahmir Thompson
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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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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 love traveling the States no matter what. I love traveling abroad, going to Japan and Australia. I love it. I never get tired of it.
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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 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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It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.
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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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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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There's no such thing as success on an isolated level.
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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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You can't live off of just greasy fatty foods and stayin' up till six in the mornin' just partyin'. You gotta take care of yourself.
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Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall.
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My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.
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My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.
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Jay-Z is a dude that can give you a hundred 'Simpsons' quotes, like, 'What you know about the monorail?'
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I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents.
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At the end of the day, I don't release any records that I'm not proud to put my name on. I never got to that point.
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For anyone that's ever had a musical breakthrough in their career, it's always followed by the departure period right after.
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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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Switching off perfection switched on the human quality
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