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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.

Babatunde Adebimpe

Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.
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Running Ten Years
There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.
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People Rooms Silence
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
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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Art People Race
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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Bowie Creative Writing
I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.
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Littles New York People
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
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
Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it’s a party every day.
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Party Social Thinking
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 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
No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand.
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Hands Jobs Wanted
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
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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Enough Knows Turn
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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Insane Running 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 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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