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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

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

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

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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  I don’t want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I’m doing.

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  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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  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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