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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. -- Questlove
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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." -- Questlove
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It's easy for me to say, "Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid." -- Questlove
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I don't bask in the awards I've won, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger. -- Questlove
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I think all of this - The Roots and DJing included - was meant to prepare me for The Tonight Show. -- Questlove
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I hate videos. I'm meticulous on everything from cover art, fonts, productions, mixing. But when it comes to videos, I just feel so defeated. -- Questlove
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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe. -- Questlove
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I was born at a very crucial time. I consider 1968 to be the Mason Dixon line between pre- and post-civil rights generation ideas, whereas a lot of people born before '68 they kind of went into that Moses mentality. Like, I'm not going to make it, you know, I don't have any hope. -- Questlove
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You can't live off of just greasy fatty foods and stayin' up till six in the mornin' just partyin'. You gotta take care of yourself. -- Questlove
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I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom and just unloading on a class, but I knew to take the scenic route to go to the grocery store to avoid certain elements. -- Questlove
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Reagan's neglect of the inner city is responsible for hiphop. Hiphop is created thanks to the conditions that crack set: easy money but a lot of work, the violence involved, the stories it produced. Crack helped birth hiphop. -- Questlove
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block. -- Questlove
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Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling, -- Questlove
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My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons. -- Questlove
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Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life. -- Questlove
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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. -- Questlove
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My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13. -- Questlove
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In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out. -- Questlove
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There's no such thing as success on an isolated level. -- Questlove
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In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people. -- Questlove
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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. -- Questlove
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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. -- Questlove
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone. -- Questlove
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I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience. -- Questlove
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Switching off perfection switched on the human quality -- Questlove
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When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life. -- Questlove
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For anyone that's ever had a musical breakthrough in their career, it's always followed by the departure period right after. -- Questlove
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I hate holidays because it's the quietest; it's the most deafening sound in my apartment. -- Questlove
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games. -- Questlove
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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. -- Questlove
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I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments. -- Questlove
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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 that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents. -- Questlove
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Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time. -- Questlove
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I don't believe in good music and bad music anymore. I'm through with that phase of my life. Sometimes I just wanna feel good, so I put on a good record. But mostly I'm more of a businessman than a music fan, so I'm listening to music in terms of, is this effective or not effective? -- Questlove
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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 ... -- Questlove
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My theory is that nine times out of ten, if there's a depression, more a social depression than anything, it brings out the best art in black people. The best example is, Reagan and Bush gave us the best years of hiphop. -- Questlove
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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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Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged. -- Questlove
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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. -- Questlove
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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
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I don't think crack happened by accident. I'm part conspiracy theorist, because you can't develop something that dangerous and have it not be planned. -- Questlove
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According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life. -- Questlove
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The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as a musician and engineer. -- Questlove
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It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing. -- Questlove
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Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time, -- Questlove
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Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed. -- Questlove
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Crack offered a lot of money to the inner-city youth who didn't go to college. Which enabled them to become businessmen. I know about maybe five people in the entertainment industry who did their peak work as a result of crack usage. -- Questlove
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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. -- Questlove
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Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people. -- Questlove
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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. -- Questlove
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I cannot keep a girlfriend longer than seven months. I have 12 jobs. I don't have time for my personal life. I'm fully aware that this is the sacrifice. -- Questlove
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I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth. -- Questlove
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I've always been a lover of hoodies. I'm a guy that travels a lot. I'm a guy that spends a lot of time on a cold air-conditioned tour bus. I'm a guy that likes to watch movies in peace. I'm a guy that likes to travel in the airport in peace. -- Questlove
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Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall. -- Questlove
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All we sell is the Greatest feeling on Earth -- Questlove
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Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive, -- Questlove
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I want the 'Roots' biopic to be animated - I see Charles Schulz drawing us. I think it would be more hilarious with the voices of children. -- Questlove
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We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I." -- Questlove
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After 2001, everyone in the Soulquarians blew up, which wasn't expected. We all got the success, and then everybody froze. -- Questlove
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes. -- Questlove
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When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, "I want that." -- Questlove
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To be hip-hop is much more than just rapping in the production. It is more in the attitude. -- Questlove
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid. -- Questlove
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I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic. -- Questlove
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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art. -- Questlove
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts. -- Questlove
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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. -- Questlove
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Jay-Z is a dude that can give you a hundred 'Simpsons' quotes, like, 'What you know about the monorail?' -- Questlove