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We have to get back to we. It's important to get back to we not just I.
Questlove
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Questlove
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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Philadelphia
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Ahmir Thompson
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I hear a lot of cries of socialism and certainly real disguises of Why should I share my money with these people? We have to get back to we. It's important to get back to we not just I.
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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 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 feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.
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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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There's no such thing as success on an isolated level.
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Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.
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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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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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Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall.
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Switching off perfection switched on the human quality
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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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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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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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To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.
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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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The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.
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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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