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  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up. Download This Image

    A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • 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 - It’s insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, “You could run off with me right now!” I’m like, “It’s cool, I think I’m gonna go read.” Download This Image

    It’s insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, “You could run off with me right now!” I’m like, “It’s cool, I think I’m gonna go read.”

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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 - 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 - 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 - There was something in me, even leaving fifth grade, that hit me and said, “I have to get out of here. I don’t know where, and I don’t know what else I can do but I’m really not going to end up like any of these people.” Download This Image

    There was something in me, even leaving fifth grade, that hit me and said, “I have to get out of here. I don’t know where, and I don’t know what else I can do but I’m really not going to end up like any of these people.”

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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 - 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 - 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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room. Download This Image

    There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek – this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were painting, some were writing. Any plans you had were kind of like a plan for the next two months. Download This Image

    I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek – this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were painting, some were writing. Any plans you had were kind of like a plan for the next two months.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it’s a party every day. Download This Image

    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 - 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!” Download This Image

    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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