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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.

Babatunde Adebimpe

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.
BABATUNDE ADEBIMPE

Keys People Talking
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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Feelings Song Sound
I know that being upset without having an avenue to fix anything is a real hard place to be in for too long. But it’s even worse thinking that it’ll go away if you just ignore it.
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Long Real 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 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
A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.
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Band People 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
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
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
I probably couldn’t have the same experience listening to that song because I’m self-conscious about some of my singing parts.
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Listening Self 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
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
One second you’re having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite – there’s only lukewarm carrots back there.
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Carrots Opposites People
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
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

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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