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

Babatunde Adebimpe

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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Effort Unique Voice
There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.
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People Rooms Silence
I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.
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People Together Want
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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Art Feelings Thinking
I feel like now if you’re going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a certain way, lined up like five dudes in mugshot alley, hanging out by the bridge or up against the wall, or “We’re in a library for some reason!”
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Bridges Library Wall
I know that being upset without having an avenue to fix anything is a real hard place to be in for too long. But it’s even worse thinking that it’ll go away if you just ignore it.
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Long Real Thinking
Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it’s a party every day.
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Party Social Thinking
You can physically move yourself around but there’s that great line that Adam wrote: “Does it define for life, like print of thumb?” I think it does.
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Doe Moving Thinking
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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Focus News Song Stories
Adding instruments to parts of a song and having them somehow find a pocket. That to me was a huge lesson. Like, there’s more than 808s in the universe.
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Lessons Pockets Song
A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.
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Band People Thinking
I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.
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Littles New York People
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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Keys People Talking
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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Away Final Going Taken
Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don’t really believe it. It’s as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.
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Believe Littles Sky
I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don’t want to be around basic human bullshit.
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Bullshit Different People

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