Babatunde Adebimpe Quotes

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• 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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  Song, Feelings, Sound

  "TV On The Radio's Tunde Adebimpe". Interview with Chris Martins, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2008.

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• 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, Thinking, Feelings

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• Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting.

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  Art, Race, People

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• There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.

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  Numbers, People, Attention

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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, Sides

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• Being 15 and like a punk in the DIY community, basically being with a group of people like no one else, it was the first place to exclude or call out if people were racist, sexist, homophobic or in any way prejudiced.

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  People, Community, Groups

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

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  Enough, Turns, Knows

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.

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  Running, Years, Ten

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

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• It's insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, "You could run off with me right now!" I'm like, "It's cool, I think I'm gonna go read."

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  Running, Thinking, Insane

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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, Sky, Littles

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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, Realizing, Horrible

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

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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.

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  People, Together, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.

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  Depressing, Artist, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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.

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  Talking, Keys, People

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

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• A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.

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  Thinking, People, Band

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

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• 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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  Thinking, Band, Might

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

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• I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don't want to be around basic human bullshit.

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  People, Bullshit, Different

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing.

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  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There was something in me, even leaving fifth grade, that hit me and said, "I have to get out of here. I don't know where, and I don't know what else I can do but I'm really not going to end up like any of these people."

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  People, Leaving, Fifth Grade

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I was born in St. Louis and lived in Pittsburgh for a bit, before my family moved to Nigeria, where they're from. We lived there for three or four years and came back to the States when I was about ten. I realised that I'd gone from place to place not fitting in. The thing that helped me fit in when moving around and not having a ton of friends was that I could make art. That was the through-line.

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  Art, Moving, Years

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.

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  Writing, Creative, Bowie

  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.

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  Party, Thinking, Social

  Source: pitchfork.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.

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  Song, Pockets, Lessons

  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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