Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove Quotes

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Rich said, "As your get older, feelings are harder to come by." It was so simple and poignant.

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

Trying to be white? What the hell does that mean? I've never understood that. How could anyone be white when they aren't white? Seems like a simple enough thing to prove, right? Hold out your arm next to someone else's arm and do a simple swatch test...

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

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, o...

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

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.

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

Music has the power to stop time. When I listen to songs, I'm transported back to the moment of their birth, which is sometimes even before the moment of my birth. Old songs, rock or soul or blues, still connect with me because the human emotions in ...

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

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.

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

Switching off perfection switched on the human quality

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

What's the point in being here if you have to follow a computer? What is this, a fucking Turing test in reverse?

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

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.

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

I remember being a teenager and being ashamed of my musical tastes, at least some of them. My Brian Wilson and Beach Boys fandom, which is as important to me as anything else, was almost like a porn stash. Hide that shit, someone's coming! You couldn...

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

When I really like something, I tend to never listen to it again. I want to remember the feeling even more than I want to remember the music. If you get that record back out, you risk learning that it’s not as good in reality as it is inside of you...

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

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

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

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

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

One night, I was out driving with a few friends of mine when the police pulled us over. We were told we fit the description of someone who had committed a robbery or stolen a car, though I don't really know what kind of description that could have be...

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove