Questlove Quotes

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• 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 create human portraits and communicate ideas and forge a climate where people of different races or classes are known to you because they make themselves known. In the simplest terms, art humanizes. It opens the circuit of empathy. And once that process happens, it's that much harder to think of people as part of a policy or a statistic. Art reverses the alienation that can creep into society.

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  Art, Mean, Thinking

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• Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

  Questlove

  Stop Time

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• When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

  Questlove

  Live Your Life, Records

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• The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.

  Questlove

  Circles, People, I Can

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• Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling.

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  Time Will Tell

  "Questlove: ‘Hip-Hop Has Failed Black America’" by Cynthia Dagnal-Myron, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2014.

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• We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

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  Important, Get Back

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• There's no such thing as success on an isolated level.

  Questlove

  Levels, Isolated

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.

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  Smell, Different, Littles

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• Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

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  Giving Up, Years, Circles

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

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  Giving Up, Mean, Persistence

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• 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 then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

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  Moving, Light, Long

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• Switching off perfection switched on the human quality

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  Perfection, Quality, Switching

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• 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 me wants the creativity that comes out of struggle and frustration and fear. It's a never-ending cycle, which must be how I want it, on some level.

  Questlove

  Jobs, Struggle, Creativity

  Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Ben Greenman (2013). “Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove”, p.216, Hachette UK

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• Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

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  Attitude, Mean, Law

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• 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. I'm not the first person to ask that question, or to see how absurd it is to think there's a real answer. Maybe life's a circle.

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  Real, Moving, Thinking

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• I really appreciate when people use their fame and their voice for more than just self-promotion, starting a dialogue about a topic or an issue much bigger than themselves.

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  Issues, Self, Voice

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• All we sell is the Greatest feeling on Earth

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  Feelings, Earth, Sells

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• To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude.

  Questlove

  Attitude, Rap, Hip Hop

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.

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  Running, Team, Sight

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• My life's goal is to find a happy medium for sampling to be not only legal but for the right parties to benefit from it. There have to be sampling laws. The survival of hiphop is based on that.

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  Party, Law, Goal

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• 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 it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.

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  Fashion, Believe, Thinking

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• Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive.

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  Meaninglessness

  "Questlove: ‘Hip-Hop Has Failed Black America’" by Cynthia Dagnal-Myron, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2014.

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• 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 that I work with.

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  People, New Friends, Right Now

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• Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4."

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  Jobs, People, Sticks

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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 you're not serving their idea of you.

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  Ideas, People, Worry

  Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Ben Greenman (2013). “Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove”, p.143, Hachette UK

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