Questlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson) Quotes

It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.

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• I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • Music
  • Listening

• I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Music
  • Country
  • Fate

• I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Experience
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Home
  • Easy

• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Lead
  • Him

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Value

• Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.

  

  Kaskade
  • People
  • Music
  • Together

• I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Ready

• I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • America
  • Science
  • Kind

• What's funny in 'The Mayor of MacDougal Street' is how Dave Van Ronk talks a lot about the time and how exciting it was and how electric it was.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Street

• We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Years
  • Ancestors

• I have an unfortunate personality.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Funny
  • Personality

• Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.

  

  Usher
  • Music
  • Development
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• I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Think
  • Irish

• I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Music
  • School
  • Kids

• Les hommes qui se sont occupés du bonheur des peuples ont rendu leurs proches bien malheureux.

  

  Anatole France

• The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice or some difficult times.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Good
  • Sacrifice

• History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • Real
  • History

• I'm a Christian. I go to church when I can. I was raised Baptist. I went to a Lutheran school. I'm a nondenominational practicing Christian. I have a lot of faith.

  

  Brittany Murphy
  • School
  • Faith
  • Church

• The Muslim Brotherhood and the Salifist parties are a real force in the Egyptian society. No civil, liberal government can succeed, even after new elections, if the Islamists are forced to work underground as a foe and the country remains divided.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • Work
  • Country
  • Real

• It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.

  

  Questlove
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