Babatunde Adebimpe Quotes
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My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.
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You turn into this desperate dude looking for a shred of attention when you just had so much. It's like, "I'm just lonely and all I really want is a hug, but I gotta capture that in something real gross." You start to understand why circus clowns are alcoholics.
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I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that's ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling.
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Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart - you don't think about them as bands; they're just the soundtrack of your life.
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I feel like now if you're going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a certain way, lined up like five dudes in mugshot alley, hanging out by the bridge or up against the wall, or "We're in a library for some reason!"
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If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.
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There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.
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There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.
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I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.
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Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.
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I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing.
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Oftentimes, when music is just blasting out it seems like it's overcompensating for something missing in the song's structure. When I think of the music that I listen to constantly, it's never like an assault.
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I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek - this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were painting, some were writing. Any plans you had were kind of like a plan for the next two months.
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I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.