Ahmir Questlove Quotes

#1. Of all the advice I can give someone...this is the most important: Never mess with a coconut salesman. A sharp machete is always at hand.

Dean MacAllister

#2. If you go too far down the rabbit-hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are

Taylor Swift

#3. Negativland through rose colored glasses. If 'mice are from Mars,' Greek Buck is from Venus.

Terre Thaemlitz

#4. What's the point in being here if you have to follow a computer? What is this, a fucking Turing test in reverse?

Ahmir Questlove Thompson

#5. There was nothing wrong with it. But there wasn't everything right with it. That

Ahmir Questlove Thompson

#6. When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#7. The Master is her own physician.
She has healed herself of all knowing.
Thus she is truly whole.

Lao-Tzu

#8. He takes a step forward, and I hate the way he looks at me. Appraising and approving. Hungry. It draws me in against my will, like he's flypaper, and everything inside me is buzzing and trying to wrench itself free.

Leisa Rayven

#9. Rich said, "As your get older, feelings are harder to come by." It was so simple and poignant.

Ahmir Questlove Thompson

#10. The question marks were piling up and I wasn't even ?uestlove yet. But Amir had questions, too, and the fishhook of the punctuation wasn't catching anything, and it wasn't straightening out either.

Ahmir Questlove Thompson

#11. In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed.

George Ryan

#12. No reader can fail to agree that the number of books she needs to read far exceeds her capacities, but when the passion for rereading kicks in, the faint guilt that therefore attends the indulgence only serves to intensify its sweetness.

Patricia Meyer Spacks

#13. Someone once said that blues and gospel were fraternal twins, close in spirit, neither one wanting to admit how similar they looked.

Ahmir Questlove Thompson

#14. Sitting there at one twenty in the afternoon in a maroon Chrysler, I told myself that I had to cherish that magical moment, because there was no guarantee that I would never again know what it felt like to hear that for the first time.

Ahmir Questlove Thompson

#15. But it's possible to love more than one person at a time, Bella. I've seen it in action.

Stephenie Meyer

#16. Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable.

Mel Gibson

#17. No one aspires to be the working man. Everyone aspires to be The Man.

Ahmir Questlove Thompson

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

Ahmir Questlove Thompson

#19. Hope is an adventure, a going forward, a confident search for a rewarding life.

Karl A. Menninger