Daveed Diggs

Often, the people I'm working with on music are separate from the rest of my life.

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I warm up a lot harder for a Clipping show than I ever did for 'Hamilton.'

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Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it…

— Daveed Diggs

It's funny because as a rapper, there is - and this is something that Clipping challenges all the time - there is…

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I sort of have this feeling about change in general. We can make baby steps on a macro level. We can try…

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Daveed Diggs is a very nervous person.

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Being on stage, I know my function. I just do the thing.

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I was so stressed, man. When I was 17, I was so worried about what the hell was going to happen.

— Daveed Diggs

My favorite Prince album is 'Sign o' the Times.'

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I'm an artist, so days don't start on any regular time.

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I miss doing a straight play.

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Typically, my advice to young artists is not to wait for someone to allow you to do the thing. Just do the…

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I'm fascinated with the regionality of rap music.

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Being with a bunch of people who never take a day off means that you're not taking a day off.

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As a kid, I was very shy.

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I think this idea of a big break is a lie.

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I get to say 'no' to a lot of things. That, for an artist, is crazy.

— Daveed Diggs

I didn't know a single musical soundtrack, really, growing up. Nobody listened to musicals. That wasn't a thing I did.

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Being an emcee onstage is mostly about crowd control, about monitoring energy levels.

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History is about who tells it.

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I'm aware that not everybody gets that feeling of ease walking through the world that I have.

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Recording vocals has the same kind of physical demands as you experience a lot in theater work.

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Using something that is really painful, generally, as the percussive element for a beat, I think is cool.

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I call myself a nerd all the time.

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Oftentimes, it feels like we spend so much of our life waiting to make art, waiting for somebody to let us do…

— Daveed Diggs