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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.

  • 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.

    BABATUNDE ADEBIMPE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there’s nothing you can do to save it – it’s a horrible feeling. Download This Image

    The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there’s nothing you can do to save it – it’s a horrible feeling.

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

    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.

    BABATUNDE ADEBIMPE
  • 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.

    BABATUNDE ADEBIMPE
  • 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.

    BABATUNDE ADEBIMPE
  • 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.

    BABATUNDE ADEBIMPE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York. Download This Image

    I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.

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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.”

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

    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.

    BABATUNDE ADEBIMPE
  • 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.

    BABATUNDE ADEBIMPE
  • 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.

    BABATUNDE ADEBIMPE
  • 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.

    BABATUNDE ADEBIMPE
  • 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!”

    BABATUNDE ADEBIMPE
  • 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.

    BABATUNDE ADEBIMPE
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - One second you’re having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite – there’s only lukewarm carrots back there.

    One second you’re having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite – there’s only lukewarm carrots back there.

    BABATUNDE ADEBIMPE
  • 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.

    BABATUNDE ADEBIMPE

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