Creative things happen to creative people, especially when they let themselves go to the Zen of the moment, when they don’t allow themselves to be pa… - Questlove

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Creative things happen to creative people, especially when they let themselves go to the Zen of the moment, when they don’t allow themselves to be paralyzed either by overthinking or by laziness.

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About Questlove

Ahmir Khalib Thompson] (born January 20, 1971), known professionally as Questlove, is an American musician, songwriter, disc jockey, author, and music journalist. He is the drummer and joint frontman (with Black Thought) for the hip hop band the Roots. The Roots have been serving as the in-house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon since February 17, 2014. Questlove is also one of the producers of the cast album of the Broadway musical Hamilton.

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Pen Names: ?uestlove
Alternative Names: Ahmir Khalib Thompson Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson ?uest Love Ahmir Thompson QuestLove DJ ?uestlove DJ Questlove Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson Ahmir-Khalib Thompson Creative Quest Quest Love Ahmir '?uestlove' Thompson Ultra Perm Brother ?
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There are now apps that let you change your onscreen face in real time before you take selfies. This can’t be helped. People who are purely presentational will remain that way. I’m more worried about the effect on creative people. The goal of creativity may be to learn to present yourself to others, in part, but it’s not to present yourself at the expense of truth. The second you become your own product, you’re heading down a chute rather than up a ladder.

Much later in life, I had a friend who tried to explain Roland Barthes to me; not all of it, of course, but that one little principle about how a text is not a unified thing, but a fragmentary or divisible thing, and that the reader is the one who divides it up, arbitrarily. Reading is the act that creates the pieces.

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