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Babatunde Adebimpe Biography

Babatunde Omoroga "Tunde" Adebimpe (born February 26, 1975) is an American musician, actor, director, and visual artist best known as the lead singer of the Brooklyn-based band TV on the Radio.

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You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.

Event, Focus, News Stories, Song, Writer

The feeling of being halfway through a show and just realizing that there's nothing you can do to save it - it's a horrible feeling.

Feelings, Halfway, Horrible, Realizing, Show

I feel like now if you're going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a certain way, lined up like five dudes in mugshot alley, hanging out by the bridge or up against the wall, or "We're in a library for some reason!"

Bridges, Library, Reason, Start, Wall, Way

Being 15 and like a punk in the DIY community, basically being with a group of people like no one else, it was the first place to exclude or call out if people were racist, sexist, homophobic or in any way prejudiced.

Community, Groups, People, Place, Prejudiced

Even as a fan, as someone who's into his performances, the Stooges and his own stuff, Iggy [Pop] is one of the people who kept underlining something that a lot of my older musician friends with punk roots say: you get into this space in your life where you feel like a weirdo, you're marginalised, you don't fit in. . . and then you can get up on stage in front of people who probably hate you.

Fit, Hate, Performances, Roots, Space, Stuff

There was something in me, even leaving fifth grade, that hit me and said, "I have to get out of here. I don't know where, and I don't know what else I can do but I'm really not going to end up like any of these people. "

Fifth, Fifth Grade, Leaving, People, Said

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

Enough, Knows, Round, Things, Turning, Turns

If anybody won life, David Bowie did, at least as a creative entity in the sense of writing yourself into existence and writing yourself out in such a graceful swoop.

Bowie, Creative, Existence, Won, Writing

Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.

Believe, Littles, Passed, Remind, Sky

One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite - there's only lukewarm carrots back there.

Carrots, Front, Having, Opposites, People

I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don't want to be around basic human bullshit.

Bullshit, Different, Expressive, Hell, People, Positive

Oftentimes, when music is just blasting out it seems like it's overcompensating for something missing in the song's structure. When I think of the music that I listen to constantly, it's never like an assault.

Listen, Missing, Oftentimes, Overcompensating, Song, Thinking

There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.

Attention, Kind, Numbers, People

Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.

Run, Running, Ten, Years

I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.

Cycle, Make, Model, People, Together, Want

I've had terrible, terrible, terrible shows where I just thought, "That was off-key" or I forgot lines or I thought I looked like an idiot, and then you're leaving and talking to people, and they're like, "I had the best time of my life! That was amazing!" You just never know.

Forgot, Idiot, Keys, Looked, People, Talking

A lot of people have reunion things, but I think bands are supposed to break up.

Band, Bands, Break, People, Thinking

You can physically move yourself around but there's that great line that Adam wrote: "Does it define for life, like print of thumb?" I think it does.

Adam, Doe, Like, Moving, Physically, Thinking

Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

Be Kind, Fun, Immediate, Long

The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.

Away, Final, Finals, Going Away, Sincere, Taken

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