"And even though people like to furrow their brow like they suspect you're not being honest about yourself, the truth is that they worry that you're not serving their idea of you."

--

Source : Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Ben Greenman (2013). “Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove”, p.143, Hachette UK

Questlove

#Ideas Quotes #Worry Quotes #People Quotes

“Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.”
“A uniform cordoned off the area with crime scene tape. The M.E. pulled in and parked. There were two EMT trucks idling at the edge of the lot. Iâ€™d stayed close to the back door, and one of the Rangeman guys had taken a position two feet from me, standing at parade rest. No doubt in my mind heâ€™d take a bullet for me rather than face Ranger over a dead Stephanie.”
“I hit him with body shots that would have brought down cities.”
“I actually don't like hip hop much; the music is too clichÃ©d, the subculture, especially the macho strutting of gangsta rappers, isn't my thing. But, at the same time, rap is a simple, direct and strong musical language.”
“I'm like a sack of potatoes, to be abused at will.”
“I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed, unless the evil is restrained, seems to me certain.... The greatest and consequently most urgent evil now is the press.... All journals, pamphlets in Germany must be under a censorship.”
“I dream, therefore I become.”
“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.”

You may also like:

Black Thought
MC
Common
Hip-hop artist
Erykah Badu
Singer-songwriter
J Dilla
Record producer
Jimmy Fallon
Television host
John Mayer
Musical Artist
Q-Tip
Rapper
Talib Kweli
Rapper
D'Angelo
Singer-songwriter