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  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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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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    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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    When I’m in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don’t really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.

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

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    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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    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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    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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    There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.

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