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.
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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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.
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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.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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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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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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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.
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I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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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.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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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.
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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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.
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At this stage, most of the awards I get are concerned with my longevity. Even I'm amazed at myself because there have been new generations since I've been born and new music that they create, so it's amazing to still be on the radar.
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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
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It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
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But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.
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Journaling has become one of the most gratifying and fulfilling practices of my life. Not only do I derive the daily benefits of consciously directing my thoughts and putting them in writing, but even more powerful are those I have gained from reviewing my journals.
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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.
