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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.
Questlove
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Questlove
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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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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I hate holidays because it's the quietest it's the most deafening sound in my apartment.
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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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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 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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It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.
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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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