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There's no such thing as success on an isolated level.
Questlove
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Questlove
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: January 20
Actor
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
?uestlove
Ahmir Thompson
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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 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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Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall.
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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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Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, 1, 2, 3, 4.
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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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My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.
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I've always been a lover of hoodies. I'm a guy that travels a lot. I'm a guy that spends a lot of time on a cold air-conditioned tour bus. I'm a guy that likes to watch movies in peace. I'm a guy that likes to travel in the airport in peace.
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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 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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My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.
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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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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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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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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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