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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.
Questlove
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Questlove
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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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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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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When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, I want that.
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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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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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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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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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I hate holidays because it's the quietest it's the most deafening sound in my apartment.
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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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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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Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage.
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I really appreciate when people use their fame and their voice for more than just self-promotion, starting a dialogue about a topic or an issue much bigger than themselves.
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When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.
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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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We have to get back to we. It's important to get back to we not just I.
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