Questlove Quotes

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• And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that…
• How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and…
• Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of the euphoric exclamations.…
• When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.
• It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.
• Switching off perfection switched on the human quality
• Part of me would just like to relax and have one job that pays me the amount I need to survive. And another part of…
• I keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what shape it is.…
• Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best, which is to…
• Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive,
• Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling,
• The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.
• All we sell is the Greatest feeling on Earth
• Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time,
• I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people…
• I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering…
• I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw…
• Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.
• I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.
• In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

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