Questlove的音乐相关英文名言(二)
Questlove 的音乐相关英文名言(二)
Questlove
♫ According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from
five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.
♫ Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense
that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.
♫ I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of
Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.
♫ I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show,
he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents.
♫ I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts
with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.
♫ I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device
so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
♫ I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can
talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
♫ I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of
risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
♫ In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following
every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.
♫ The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right
stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.