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

  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - You can physically move yourself around but there’s that great line that Adam wrote: “Does it define for life, like print of thumb?” I think it does. Download This Image

    You can physically move yourself around but there’s that great line that Adam wrote: “Does it define for life, like print of thumb?” I think it does.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side. Download This Image

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

    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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  • 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.”

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  • 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 - Adam is one of my favourite writers, period. He has such a unique voice and he’s somebody who I admire so much for putting the effort into inventing his own language and furthering it. Download This Image

    Adam is one of my favourite writers, period. He has such a unique voice and he’s somebody who I admire so much for putting the effort into inventing his own language and furthering it.

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  • 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.

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

    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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  • 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.

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

    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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  • 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 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.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Babatunde Adebimpe Quote - There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you’re doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music. Download This Image

    There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you’re doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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