Babatunde Adebimpe Quotes
Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it.
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I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
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I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
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As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.
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To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way.
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Cancer softened me up. I like the old me better. I liked being angry. It made me feel strong.
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But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
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Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.
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People find life entirely too time-consuming.
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Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.
