Babatunde Adebimpe Quotes

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

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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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• 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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• Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

  

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• I'll work with anyone - and I really do mean that - Democrat, Republican, independent, Libertarian, contrarian, vegetarian.

  

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• It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable.

  

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• Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

  

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• Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

  

  Babatunde Adebimpe
  • Work
  • Music
  • Long