Ahmir Quotes

#1. For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

Euripides

#2. 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

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

Ahmir Questlove Thompson

#4. 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

#5. The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

Niels Bohr

#6. Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?

Kara Swisher

#7. Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#8. 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

#9. I think it's so important to remember the complexity of things.

Francesca DiMattio

#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. It was hard to imagine him sneaking around and leaving a rose on anyone's doormat, but I guess boys will surprise you sometimes.

Rebecca Stead

#12. I left it for seven years before going back on stage. I know now not to leave it so long.

Ewan McGregor

#13. Even in her casual white shirt and cotton pants, she was clearly an independent woman in charge of her destiny. She was so ... He paused, searching for words. So sophisticated, so self-assured.

Jan Moran

#14. The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

Ezra Stiles

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

Ahmir Questlove Thompson

#16. Say you write a song about a chandelier, and the chandelier gives off light. And the light is the color red and red reminds you of the color your not supposed to wear around a bull. So you name the song 'Cow.'

Billy Corgan

#17. We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.

A.S. King

#18. Amazing, the power of fiction, even cheap popular fiction, to evoke.

Philip K. Dick

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

Ahmir Questlove Thompson

#20. 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