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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

I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.
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Artist Depressing People
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
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.
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Feelings Horrible Realizing
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 don’t want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I’m doing.
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People Thinking Want
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
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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Fifth Grade Leaving People
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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Father Musician Side
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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Listening Self Song
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.
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Carrots Opposites People
A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.
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Band People Thinking
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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Missing Song Thinking
I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.
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Littles New York 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’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
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

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