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Part of me would just like to relax and have one job that pays me the amount I need to survive. And another part of me wants the creativity that comes out of struggle and frustration and fear. It's a never-ending cycle, which must be how I want it, on some level.

~ Ahmir Questlove Thompson

Ahmir Questlove Thompson Career Creativity Money Struggle

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

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Ahmir Questlove Thompson Darkness Forward Light Rebirth

Rich said, As your get older, feelings are harder to come by. It was so simple and poignant.

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Ahmir Questlove Thompson Aging Feelings Life

Music has the power to stop time. When I listen to songs, I'm transported back to the moment of their birth, which is sometimes even before the moment of my birth. Old songs, rock or soul or blues, still connect with me because the human emotions in them, whether jealousy or rage or hope, are recognizably similar to the emotions that I'm feeling now. But I'm feeling all of them, all the time, and so the songs act like a chemical process that isolates certain feelings at certain times: maybe one song helps illuminate the jubilation and one helps illuminate the sorrow and one helps illuminate the resignation. Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

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Ahmir Questlove Thompson Emotions Music Time

Every time a new record started, people exhaled with pleasure, or their bodies moved automatically. I really started getting high off of the euphoric exclamations. Every record I put on was like a baptism.

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Ahmir Questlove Thompson Emotions Music People Records

What's the point in being here if you have to follow a computer? What is this, a fucking Turing test in reverse?

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Ahmir Questlove Thompson Humans Technology

One night, I was out driving with a few friends of mine when the police pulled us over. We were told we fit the description of someone who had committed a robbery or stolen a car, though I don't really know what kind of description that could have been: three black kids in a Hyundai blasting U2's Joshua Tree on their way back from Bible study?

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Ahmir Questlove Thompson Racism Stereotypes

And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you.

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Ahmir Questlove Thompson Fandom Memoir Music

Switching off perfection switched on the human quality

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Ahmir Questlove Thompson Humanity Perfection Quality

Trying to be white? What the hell does that mean? I've never understood that. How could anyone be white when they aren't white? Seems like a simple enough thing to prove, right? Hold out your arm next to someone else's arm and do a simple swatch test. Of course, what people mean when they say that is that there's some kind of authentic black experience that the accused isn't properly expressing. But what is the authentic experience? Clothes that wannabe gangbangers wear on the street? Hood style? What's authentic about that? For that matter, is fashion even a good marker of authenticity or race, anyway? Aren't clothes a second skin you wear over your real skin to obscure who you really are? Can they also express who you really are?

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Ahmir Questlove Thompson Authenticity Race

I remember being a teenager and being ashamed of my musical tastes, at least some of them. My Brian Wilson and Beach Boys fandom, which is as important to me as anything else, was almost like a porn stash. Hide that shit, someone's coming! You couldn't look like me and be black in West Philadelphia and love the Beach Boys the way I did.

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Ahmir Questlove Thompson Fandom Music Shame

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

~ Ahmir Questlove Thompson

Ahmir Questlove Thompson Persistence Time
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