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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

I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.
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Littles New York People
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
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
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
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 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
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.
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Lessons Pockets Song
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 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
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
Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.
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Running Ten Years
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
Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.
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Fun Kind Long
Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it’s a party every day.
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Party Social Thinking
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
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

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