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My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.
Questlove
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Questlove
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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?uestlove
Ahmir Thompson
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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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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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My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.
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At 25, my idea of success may have been more vain, like, I'll be good the day that there's $20 million in my account and I have this particular house and the wife and 2.5 kids. But at 40 - and I know it's kind of silly telling you guys this - but as long as my Metacritic rating stays above 80, that's all I care about.
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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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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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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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It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.
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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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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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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 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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