Music Is History Quotes

“There are studies in early child psychology that demonstrate that children have only their own perspective. If you put a doll across the table from them and ask them what the doll sees, they will tell you what they see. They know the doll is across the table, but they cannot imagine a perspective other than their own. How different are we?”
― Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Music Is History

“it is true that how you come to history has everything to do with how history comes to you.”
― Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Music Is History

“I have thought often about how history happens twice: once when an event actually occurs and once when people discover that it has occurred. That second time is the first time for them, because they didn’t know about the first time.”
― Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Music Is History

“Records can be replayed after they end. Lives can only be remembered.”
― Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Music Is History

“Whenever there’s a story happening, there’s more than one story happening.”
― Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Music Is History

“If history doesn’t pass through to the people who occupy the highest offices, there’s bound to be trouble. A nation of ignorance holds us all back.”
― Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Music Is History

“That’s my track in your track, and I don’t feel Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups about it as much as I feel District Court.”
― Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Music Is History