Q-Tip Quotes
I'm a cinephile. I love movies, I love film at every level. I'm a student of it. It informs me as does all art in my music, because there's stories, there's acts, there's moods, there's dynamics, there's moodiness, emotion. All of those things that play into a film. I think that could equally be said about music. It definitely informs me. Beats is stories.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
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At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.
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Often you have to rely on your intuition.
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Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.
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It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming.
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That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street is a lot more interesting.
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I'm a cinephile. I love movies, I love film at every level. I'm a student of it. It informs me as does all art in my music, because there's stories, there's acts, there's moods, there's dynamics, there's moodiness, emotion. All of those things that play into a film. I think that could equally be said about music. It definitely informs me. Beats is stories.
