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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It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.
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Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello...
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There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a film about them in a film that feels like reality because people view that in a different way. I like using science fiction to talk about subjects through the veneer of science fiction.
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I'll tell you where my heart is - my heart is just to try to give back.
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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.
