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Questlove Quotes & Sayings

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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? — Ahmir Questlove Thompson

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

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

What 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 Thompson

After 2001, everyone in the Soulquarians blew up, which wasn't expected. We all got the success, and then everybody froze. — Questlove

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

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

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

(Questlove) Is this the most revolutionary thing to happen to Broadway, or the most revolutionary thing to happen to hip-hop? — Lin-Manuel Miranda

Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling, — Questlove

In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people. — Questlove

I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience. — Questlove

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

I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic. — Questlove

When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, "I want that." — Questlove

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

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

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time, — Questlove

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

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

Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive, — Questlove

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

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

All we sell is the Greatest feeling on Earth — Questlove

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

It's easy for me to say, "Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid." — Questlove

My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13. — Questlove

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

Switching off perfection switched on the human quality — Questlove

Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged. — Questlove

Someone once said that blues and gospel were fraternal twins, close in spirit, neither one wanting to admit how similar they looked. — Ahmir Questlove Thompson

For anyone that's ever had a musical breakthrough in their career, it's always followed by the departure period right after. — Questlove

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

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

I think all of this - The Roots and DJing included - was meant to prepare me for The Tonight Show. — Questlove

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

No one aspires to be the working man. Everyone aspires to be The Man. — Ahmir Questlove Thompson

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

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

Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall. — Questlove

There was nothing wrong with it. But there wasn't everything right with it. That — Ahmir Questlove Thompson

I hate holidays because it's the quietest; it's the most deafening sound in my apartment. — Questlove

My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons. — Questlove

Jay-Z is a dude that can give you a hundred 'Simpsons' quotes, like, 'What you know about the monorail?' — Questlove

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

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

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

When we came out with 'Lazy Sunday,' the greatest compliment I heard was that Questlove had it on his iPod. — Jorma Taccone

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