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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
~ Q-Tip
Art
Artistic
Balance
Both
Business
Commerce
Enough
Good
How
Know
Lot
May
People
Really
Satisfy
Savvy
Sense
Who
You
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Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.
~ Q-Tip
Art
Been
Bottom
Bottom Line
Business
Challenging
Communicate
Dealing
Financial
Forget
Hard
Has-Been
Know
Line
Look
Most
Music
Nature
Only
Packaging
People
Personalities
Really
Return
Run
Thing
Things
Those
Who
You
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For people who love Tribe, I'm the defector. They say, 'You should get back with Ali to do the beats.' But a lot of people don't realize I did all the music in Tribe. In the first three albums, I did all the beats!
~ Q-Tip
Albums
Ali
Back
Beats
Did
First
Get
Lot
Love
Music
People
Realize
Say
Should
They Say
Three
Tribe
Who
You
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I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.
~ Q-Tip
Anyone
Beat
Before
Cool
Definitely
Drummer
He
Heard
Man
Move
My Own
Own
Playing
Pretty
Something
Though
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I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.
~ Q-Tip
Degree
Expectations
Life
Like
Manage
Means
One-Dimensional
Positive
Positive Things
Present
Relate
Sides
Speak
Still
Story
Things
Try
Two
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I don't really listen to my work. If I have to DJ and I play something, I hear it. But I don't sit quietly and listen to my work; I'm always off to do the next thing.
~ Q-Tip
Always
DJ
Hear
Listen
Next
Next Thing
Off
Play
Quietly
Really
Sit
Something
Thing
Work
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I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.
~ Q-Tip
Abroad
Barack
Barack Obama
Common
Country
Doors
Embodies
Feel
Going
Here
I Feel
I Feel Like
Kind
Like
Obama
Open
Political
Push
Same
Sense
Spirit
Synergy
The Doors
Them
Time
Wide
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I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.
~ Q-Tip
Courage
Embody
Feel
Fight
His
Hope
I Feel
I Feel Like
Idea
Like
Means
Music
Obama
Principles
Reach
Shrinking
Something
Those
Try
Way
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I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.
~ Q-Tip
Around
Came
Gonna
Grew
Had
He
I Came
Just
Kept
Knew
Like
Looked
Me
Neighbourhood
OK
Rhymes
Rough
Said
Side
Soft
Special
Talent
Thugs
Tracks
Up
Were
Wolves
Would
Would-Be
You
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I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.
~ Q-Tip
Agnostic
Appealed
Back
Breathed
Cool
Cushion
Koran
Me
Read
Really
Spiritually
Time
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.
~ Q-Tip
Church
Entertainment
Expression
Growing
Growing Up
More
Music
Neighborhood
Relief
Sang
Up
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I shot a movie with Nicole Kidman that I got cut out of - it was crap anyways.
~ Q-Tip
Crap
Cut
Got
Movie
Nicole
Nicole Kidman
Out
Shot
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I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just try to do it in an honest fashion, you know, just try to be as earnest as possible and sometime it may be self-effacing. Sometimes it may be finger-pointing. Sometimes it may be beautiful, and sometime it may be ugly.
~ Q-Tip
Audience
Beautiful
Earnest
Fashion
Great
Great Responsibility
Honest
I Think
Just
Know
May
Music
Possible
Relate
Responsibility
Sometime
Sometimes
Think
Try
Ugly
You
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If there's a 'Cruel Summer' then there's got to be a 'Cruel Winter,' right? That's all I'm saying.
~ Q-Tip
Cruel
Got
Right
Saying
Summer
Then
Winter
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I'm in a hallowed league of artists. Whether it's Billie Holiday or Rakim or Jimmy Hendrix or... I don't know, MGMT, we're all blessed to be able to create. It's a lineage that extends a long time. And to be able to be active in it and have made a difference in it, it's humbling. To know I had a place in all of this; that's the rewarding part.
~ Q-Tip
Able
Active
Artists
Billie Holiday
Blessed
Create
Difference
Had
Hallowed
Hendrix
Holiday
Humbling
Jimmy
Know
League
Lineage
Long
Long Time
Made
Part
Place
Rewarding
Time
Whether
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I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.
~ Q-Tip
Culture
Kind
Know
Pop
Pop Culture
Stew
You
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In 1999, I just came out of putting out the song 'Vivrant Thing' and 'Breathe and Stop' off the 'Amplified' album. Clive Davis signed me to Arista.
~ Q-Tip
Album
Amplified
Breathe
Came
Davis
Just
Me
Off
Out
Putting
Signed
Song
Stop
Thing
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In theory, people would pick progression every time over being idle. But if you look at us as a culture, as a people, you would say that if you get up at five o'clock in the morning, eat your breakfast, go to work, make money, pay your bills, you're progressing, when you're still doing what's comfortable.
~ Q-Tip
Being
Bills
Breakfast
Comfortable
Culture
Doing
Eat
Every
Every Time
Five
Get
Go
Idle
Look
Make
Money
Morning
Over
Pay
People
Pick
Progressing
Progression
Say
Still
Theory
Time
Up
Us
Work
Would
You
Your
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It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'
~ Q-Tip
About
Anything
Blog
Encouraging
Everybody
Facebook
First
Make
Out
Petition
Rhymes
Sign
Single
Thank
Thank You
Tweet
Wanna
You
Your
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On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.
~ Q-Tip
Achieving
Amount
Artists
Attention
Been
Beyonce
Bit
Certain
Getting
Hard
Hard Time
Has-Been
Jay-Z
Just
Just A Little Bit
Kanye
Keys
Lil Wayne
Little
Little Bit
Mary
Music
Only
Other
People
Radio
Really
Special
Things
Time
Wayne
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