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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.
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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When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, I want that.
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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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I keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what shape it is. I'm not the first person to ask that question, or to see how absurd it is to think there's a real answer. Maybe life's a circle.
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