When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.
Ahmir "Questlove" ThompsonRich said, "As your get older, feelings are harder to come by." It was so simple and poignant.
Ahmir "Questlove" ThompsonSwitching off perfection switched on the human quality
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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. Every record I put on was like a baptism.
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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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It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.
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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.
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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.
Ahmir "Questlove" ThompsonWhat a shitty way to go through life, hiding your love for music so that people don't think the wrong things about you.
Ahmir "Questlove" ThompsonSomeone once said that blues and gospel were fraternal twins, close in spirit, neither one wanting to admit how similar they looked.
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