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Most of the bands that I really hold in my heart – you don’t think about them as bands; they’re just the soundtrack of your life.

  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - You have to be a really talented writer if you’re trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don’t have the focus to do that, really. Download This Image

    You have to be a really talented writer if you’re trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don’t have the focus to do that, really.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - I’ve had terrible, terrible, terrible shows where I just thought, “That was off-key” or I forgot lines or I thought I looked like an idiot, and then you’re leaving and talking to people, and they’re like, “I had the best time of my life! That was amazing!” You just never know. Download This Image

    I’ve had terrible, terrible, terrible shows where I just thought, “That was off-key” or I forgot lines or I thought I looked like an idiot, and then you’re leaving and talking to people, and they’re like, “I had the best time of my life! That was amazing!” You just never know.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - Oftentimes, when music is just blasting out it seems like it’s overcompensating for something missing in the song’s structure. When I think of the music that I listen to constantly, it’s never like an assault. Download This Image

    Oftentimes, when music is just blasting out it seems like it’s overcompensating for something missing in the song’s structure. When I think of the music that I listen to constantly, it’s never like an assault.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

    If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting. Download This Image

    Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - Being 15 and like a punk in the DIY community, basically being with a group of people like no one else, it was the first place to exclude or call out if people were racist, sexist, homophobic or in any way prejudiced. Download This Image

    Being 15 and like a punk in the DIY community, basically being with a group of people like no one else, it was the first place to exclude or call out if people were racist, sexist, homophobic or in any way prejudiced.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - When I’m in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don’t really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that. Download This Image

    When I’m in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don’t really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you’re doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music. Download This Image

    There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you’re doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.

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    Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it’s a party every day.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - Adam is one of my favourite writers, period. He has such a unique voice and he’s somebody who I admire so much for putting the effort into inventing his own language and furthering it. Download This Image

    Adam is one of my favourite writers, period. He has such a unique voice and he’s somebody who I admire so much for putting the effort into inventing his own language and furthering it.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - I probably couldn’t have the same experience listening to that song because I’m self-conscious about some of my singing parts. Download This Image

    I probably couldn’t have the same experience listening to that song because I’m self-conscious about some of my singing parts.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop. Download This Image

    If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I’m in my thirties or whatever. But I also think it’s the rare band that doesn’t, like, turn into something else.

    Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I’m in my thirties or whatever. But I also think it’s the rare band that doesn’t, like, turn into something else.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - The cynicism doesn’t come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away. Download This Image

    The cynicism doesn’t come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side. Download This Image

    My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that’s ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling. Download This Image

    I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that’s ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling.

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