Latest Questlove Quotes from Interviews

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• I love traveling the States no matter what. I love traveling abroad, going to Japan and Australia. I love it. I never get tired of it.

  Questlove

  Tired

  Source: www.avclub.com

• At the end of the day, I don't release any records that I'm not proud to put my name on. I never got to that point.

  Questlove

  Proud

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I do count on a changing of tides. All too often, what could be a critics' darling today becomes tomorrow's target. I don't want to be too blasé about it.

  Questlove

  Today

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I want to be as healthy as I can be so I can make it past 50; make it past 60 and make it past 70.

  Questlove

  Past, Healthy, Want

• I was one of those skeptics that thought that yoga was for kooks. Now I'm on a very strict regimen. You know, I work out. That's another thing I've learned relaxin', sleep, yoga. I didn't know that that's as crucial as going hard, as workin' hard, as exercising hard. I never knew. I thought that, "Okay, I gotta be at the gym like five hours everyday going balls to the wall." And what my yoga instructor, what my trainer, what they're trying to teach me is that, "No, it's sleep." That's important. That's just as important as workin' out.

  Questlove

  Wall, Yoga, Sleep

• It was absolutely killing me that I've spent the first 25 years of my life tryin' to avoid bullets. That was always the main concern. Don't go out late. Don't go to any shady neighborhoods. Don't hang in bars alone. Why? Because you wanna avoid bullets. So once I get to 35 then I was like "Woo, okay. Made it." And now there's a new warning. Now it's like strokes; I gotta watch my health.

  Questlove

  Years, Bars, Warning

• I hear a lot of cries of socialism and certainly real disguises of "Why should I share my money with these people?" We have to get back to "we." It's important to get back to "we" not just "I."

  Questlove

  Real, People, Important

• I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic. And you know, I don't sit there, I don't bask in the awards I've won, you know, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger. So for me personally, I just don't celebrate it. I'm happy, right now.

  Questlove

  Artist, Awards, Losing

• Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

  Questlove

  Attitude, Mean, Law

• What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November 2, 2008, because of the progress and the spirit that it took to get Barack Obama in The White House. And what we didn't realize, is that was really the beginning. That was really the beginning of the struggle and not the end of a struggle, to come from colonial times through slavery, through the Jim Crowe Laws, through the civil rights period to The White House as, like a point A/point B journey. Point B of course being the end.

  Questlove

  Believe, Struggle, Journey

• I was born at a very crucial time. I consider 1968 to be the Mason Dixon line between pre- and post-civil rights generation ideas, whereas a lot of people born before '68 they kind of went into that Moses mentality. Like, I'm not going to make it, you know, I don't have any hope.

  Questlove

  Ideas, Rights, People

• After 2001, everyone in the Soulquarians blew up, which wasn't expected. We all got the success, and then everybody froze.

  Questlove

  Expected

  Source: pitchfork.com

• There's no such thing as success on an isolated level.

  Questlove

  Levels, Isolated

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I hate videos. I'm meticulous on everything from cover art, fonts, productions, mixing. But when it comes to videos, I just feel so defeated.

  Questlove

  Art, Hate, Fonts

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.

  Questlove

  Artist, White, Cobain

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Jay-Z is a dude that can give you a hundred 'Simpsons' quotes, like, 'What you know about the monorail?'

  Questlove

  Giving, Hundred, Knows

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall.

  Questlove

  Wall, Artist, Banging Your Head

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4."

  Questlove

  Jobs, People, Sticks

  Source: pitchfork.com

• It's easy for me to say, "Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid."

  Questlove

  Moving, Artist, Self

  Source: pitchfork.com

• The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as a musician and engineer.

  Questlove

  Hip Hop, Hips, Musician

  Source: pitchfork.com

• For anyone that's ever had a musical breakthrough in their career, it's always followed by the departure period right after.

  Questlove

  Careers, Musical, Departure

  Source: pitchfork.com

• It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.

  Questlove

  Artist, Made, Music Is

  Source: pitchfork.com

• At 25, my idea of success may have been more vain, like, "I'll be good the day that there's $20 million in my account and I have this particular house and the wife and 2.5 kids." But at 40 - and I know it's kind of silly telling you guys this - but as long as my Metacritic rating stays above 80, that's all I care about.

  Questlove

  Silly, Kids, Ideas

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I never want to get to that level of poverty where taking a bath has to be a hot-pot experience.

  Questlove

  Hot, Levels, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

• When you first start off, you see what other people have and quietly say, "I want that."

  Questlove

  People, Want, Firsts

  Source: pitchfork.com