Quotes by Questlove

About Questlove:

Ahmir Khalib Thompson is an American drummer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, music journalist, and record producer. He is best known as the drummer and joint frontman (with Black Thought) for the Grammy Award-winning band The Roots, serving since February 17, 2014, as the in-house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the same role he and the band served during the entire 969-episode run of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
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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.

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

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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...

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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, o...

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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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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 ...

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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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Switching off perfection switched on the human quality

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

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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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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...

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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...

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

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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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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...

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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.

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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.

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I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.

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I've come to the conclusion that the average person can do about four things a day, like four real things a day.

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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.

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Author Bio

  • NameQuestlove
  • DescriptionAfrican-American musician
  • Aliases?uestlove
  • BornJanuary 20, 1971
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionDrummer; Disc Jockey; Musician