“Genetics and beats? I feel like the drumbeat is a natural thing. Our heartbeat moves at a certain BPM. The drumbeat, being the first instrument, the platform for us, being that we all kind of come from that - it's all beats.” FeelsFirstsKindMovingCertainNaturalBeatsInstrumentsAll KindsPlatformsHeartbeatGeneticsNatural Things Author:Q-Tip
“Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.” PlayGamesFunSportsEnjoyBasketballCompetitionAthleteHaving FunEnjoymentMotivational SportsEnjoy LifeInspirational SportsBasketball PlayerFamous BasketballInspirational BasketballMotivational BasketballMotivational Inspirational SportsBasketball MotivationAthlete MotivationalBest AthleteNba PlayerBasketball GamePlaying BasketballPlaying SportsBasketball TeamworkEnjoy Your LifeJust Have FunPopular SportsBasketball TrainingSports CompetitionBasketball Is My LifeBasketball Is LifeBasketball And LifeBasketball Life Author:Michael Jordan
“For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's truth through the center of the individual. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's fallacies or falsehoods. It just happens to be one perception of what's happening.” MeanArtStillsHappensIndividualStuffPerceptionHappeningsFalsehoodAbstractionFallacyStuff I Like Author:Q-Tip
“We all have our own takes on things. To being yourself. The abstract, the whole thing that I play with, seems to result in seeing through your lenses, and once you express how you see things to others, you start to see there are similarities between all people. It's kind of like, no matter how far you go, you're still where you started, in a way.” PeopleWayKindStillsMatterPlayWholeSeemsResultsSeeingAbstractBeing YourselfLensesSimilarity Author:Q-Tip
“I'm a cinephile. I love movies, I love film at every level. I'm a student of it. It informs me as does all art in my music, because there's stories, there's acts, there's moods, there's dynamics, there's moodiness, emotion. All of those things that play into a film. I think that could equally be said about music. It definitely informs me. Beats is stories.” ThinkingDoeArtSaidPlayStoriesFilmLevelsEmotionStudentsMusic IsBeatsMoodDynamicsMovie LoveLove FilmsMoodiness Author:Q-Tip
“I like music with soul and passion and the good of humanity. As long as it has those things, I'm all the way in.” WayLongSoulHumanityPassion Author:Q-Tip
“I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.” MotherHoursBabyMonthsNineAdoptedOne HourNine Months Author:Michael Franti
“It's also hard for me to understand growing up not knowing where I came from. I searched for my parents - I started when I was twenty; I found both my mother and my father when I was twenty-two. Trying to catch up on twenty-two years that we can never get back, trying to reconcile that - that's a hard thing for me.” TryingYearsTwoHardMotherFoundFatherParentGrowing UpKnowingGrowingTwentiesTwo YearsGet BackNot KnowingReconcileHard ThingsTwenty Two Author:Michael Franti
“I think the main thing I would say is, don't settle. Don't settle for something that's not great.” ThinkingSettling Author:Michael Franti
“The main thing is to be myself. What I mean by that is, to be honest when called upon to express your feelings. The other thing is - maybe this should come first - to be a good listener. To close your mouth and to listen, and to be able to echo back what your partner says to you.” ShouldFirstsMeanFeelingsAbleHonestMouthsPartnersBeing HonestEchoesListenersGood Listener Author:Michael Franti