Dizzee Rascal quotes

“There wouldn't be no grime without me.”
-- Dizzee Rascal

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“You can find out a lot sitting in the barber's.”
-- Dizzee Rascal

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“I always want to make people dance so there'll always be an element of dance in my music.”
-- Dizzee Rascal

Source : Sweatin' Beats Interview, www.mtv.com.au. April 6, 2010.

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“Grunge, like Nirvana and all that. Heavy metal, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Guns and Roses, drum and bass. I like to listen to it and try and break down what makes a fan of that music say 'Ah fuck that other music', do you get me? Trying to figure out what makes them tick, I always try and break that down with every piece of music. But the energy in that music, I love it.”
-- Dizzee Rascal

Source : Interview with Mark Pytlik, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2005.

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“I'm trying to give people the chance to put out their music without the bullshit pressures of other labels.”
-- Dizzee Rascal

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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“I found it easy to produce. I'm not the musical guy. I can't read and play music like that, but put some drums and a sample in front of me and I can whip it up nice, and I'll work out some keys and find some interesting instruments to put under it.”
-- Dizzee Rascal

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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“Other than my Instagram - very recently - I'm not out there. I'm not in the papers every week, I've managed to curb all that. I've never turned up at a party just to be snapped. It's not my kind of thing.”
-- Dizzee Rascal

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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“I just know that he's Robbie Williams - he's massive, that's all I know! He nailed it. Working in the studio with him was cool. I got there at about six in the afternoon and then stayed until six in the morning. We only worked for like two hours, the rest of the time we were just chilling out the back. The way Robbie handles everything... he's a star, but there were never any pretensions, no ego. He put effort in.”
-- Dizzee Rascal

Source : Source: thequietus.com

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“Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”

“When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.”

“Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.”

“I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.”

“Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.”

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”

“I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.”

“I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.”

Source : "Adele Opens Up About Her Inspirations, Looks and Stage Fright", www.rollingstone.com. April 28, 2011.

“If I want to make a grime tune I'll go ahead and do it, but I don't really have the urge to right now.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com