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Babatunde Adebimpe

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.
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Band Heart Thinking
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
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
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
There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.
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People Rooms Silence
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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People Two Writing
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
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
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
I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.
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Littles New York People
I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.
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People Together Want
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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Community Groups People
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
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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Bridges Library Wall
A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.
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Band People Thinking

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