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The cynicism doesn’t come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.

Babatunde Adebimpe

A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.
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Band People Thinking
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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Focus News Song Stories
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
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
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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Doe Moving Thinking
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
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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Art Feelings Thinking
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
Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I’m in my thirties or whatever. But I also think it’s the rare band that doesn’t, like, turn into something else.
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Band might Thinking
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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Effort Unique Voice
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
You turn into this desperate dude looking for a shred of attention when you just had so much. It’s like, “I’m just lonely and all I really want is a hug, but I gotta capture that in something real gross.” You start to understand why circus clowns are alcoholics.
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Hug Lonely Real
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 feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.
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Littles New York People
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
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

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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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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