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

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  People, Silence, Rooms

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Moving, Thinking, Doe

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Unique, Voice, Effort

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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!"

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  Wall, Bridges, Library

  Source: thequietus.com

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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.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Song, Pockets, Lessons

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Even as a fan, as someone who's into his performances, the Stooges and his own stuff, Iggy [Pop] is one of the people who kept underlining something that a lot of my older musician friends with punk roots say: you get into this space in your life where you feel like a weirdo, you're marginalised, you don't fit in... and then you can get up on stage in front of people who probably hate you.

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  Hate, Roots, Space

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Touring is really a weird social experiment, even though everyone thinks it's a party every day.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Party, Thinking, Social

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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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  Opposites, People, Carrots

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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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  Lonely, Real, Hug

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• No one wanted a job. No one could hold a job. You tend to see those going hand in hand.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Jobs, Hands, Wanted

  "The Survivors: TV on the Radio". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 15, 2011.

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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.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Song, News Stories, Focus

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Fun, Long, Be Kind

  "The Survivors: TV on the Radio". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 15, 2011.

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• 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.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Real, Thinking, Long

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Song, Self, Listening

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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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  Writing, Two, People

  "The Survivors: TV on the Radio". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 15, 2011.

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