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Jay-Z is a dude that can give you a hundred 'Simpsons' quotes, like, 'What you know about the monorail?'
Questlove
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Questlove
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
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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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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.
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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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When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.
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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 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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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 a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.
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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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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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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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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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To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.
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The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.
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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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Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall.
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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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I hate holidays because it's the quietest it's the most deafening sound in my apartment.
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Switching off perfection switched on the human quality
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Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.
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