What a shitty way to go through life, hiding your love for music so that people don't think the wrong things about you. - Questlove

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What a shitty way to go through life, hiding your love for music so that people don't think the wrong things about you.

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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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Alternative Names: Ahmir Khalib Thompson Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson ?uest Love Ahmir Thompson QuestLove DJ ?uestlove DJ Questlove ?uestlove Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson Ahmir-Khalib Thompson Creative Quest Quest Love Ahmir '?uestlove' Thompson Ultra Perm Brother ?
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When I really like something, I tend to never listen to it again. I want to remember the feeling even more than I want to remember the music. If you get that record back out, you risk learning that it’s not as good in reality as it is inside of you. Better to have the memory than to go back and have to adjust your truth. And even if it is every bit as good, you’re just going to deconstruct it. You’re going to use your brain instead of your feelings. As you get older, feelings are hard to come by. - Richard Nichols

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.

I keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what shape it is. I'm not the first person to ask that question, or to see how absurd it is to think there's a real answer. Maybe life's a circle...

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