Questlove (Ahmir Khalib Thompson) Quotes

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

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• In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.

  

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• My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.

  

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• When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

  

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• I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.

  

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• There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

  

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• Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.

  

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• The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.

  

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• I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

  

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• Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.

  

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• Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.

  

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• I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

  

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• Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.

  

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• I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.

  

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• I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.

  

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• In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.

  

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• I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.

  

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• Clothes have memories, and sometimes you don't want to remember. People remember where they bought the clothes, who gave them, or where they stole them from.

  

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• Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design robots that can interact with people, in this very natural, interpersonal way, I think that would be great. You wouldn't have to have people read manuals, in order to operate them.

  

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• Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.

  

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• It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

  

  Questlove
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  • Time
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