Grime Quotes:

There wouldn't be no grime without me.

- Dizzee Rascal

topic: Music, Grime

Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving.

- Tinie Tempah

topic: Style, Sides, Grime, Darker Side

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.

- Lady Sovereign

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Tunes, Want, Grime

I just wanted to make music, and grime wasn't exactly the path that I took naturally. It was something that was put on me as a label.

- Lady Sovereign

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Labels, Path, Grime

I never really was a grime artist. I'm just an artist.

- Lady Sovereign

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Artist, Grime

He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.

- Chinua Achebe

source: Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.11, Anchor

topic: Fighting, Earth, Grime

Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear.

- Steven Morrissey

topic: Boots, World, Grime

I am looking to get into the grime rap U.K. scene.

- Tom Felton

source: " Harry Potter's Draco Malfoy plots new career as a rapper" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2011.

topic: Rap, Scene, Grime

Thus when a barber and a collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier-white; The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack, And big with vengeance beats the barber-black. In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'erspread, And beats the collier and the barber-red: Black, red, and white in various clouds are tost, And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.

- Christopher Smart

topic: Fighting, Men, Dust, Grime, Red And White

Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.

- Roz Chast

topic: Long, Cabinets, Fingerprints, Grime, Messiness

Usually when I make music, in my head I'm like 'this isn't Grimes, this is just some other project that you can release later, so there's no pressure and it doesn't matter and no-one's ever gonna hear it'.

- Grimes

source: "Always Waiting For The Shivers To Happen: Grimes Interviewed". Interview with Angus Finlayson, thequietus.com. May 25, 2012.

topic: Matter, Pressure, Release, Grime, No Pressure

I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know...

- Bohumil Hrabal

source: Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Grime, Briefcases

I wrote a short article called "Yardcore" for that issue, too, as an attempt to talk about the Jamaican influence on garage, grime and dubstep; as a splicing of soundsystem culture and hardcore.

- Kode9

source: "The VICE Oral History of Dubstep". www.vice.com. June 23, 2015.

topic: Issues, Dubstep, Culture, Grime, Jamaicans

Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges the ugliness of sin by choosing to see beyond it. Grace accepts a person as someone worthy of kindness despite whatever grime or hard-shell casing keeps him or her separated from the rest of the world. Grace is a gift of tender mercy when it makes the least sense.

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Kindness, Humble, Grace, Tender Mercies, Grime

An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries danger with it. From the great smoke stacks of industry and from the exhausts of motors and machines, 130 million tons of soot, carbon and grime settle over the people and shroud the Nation's cities each year. From towns, factories, and stockyards, wastes pollute our rivers and streams, endangering the waters we drink and use.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

topic: Technology, Years, Cities, Grime

When I first started writing lyrics and stuff, I was writing it to garage, and obviously garage kind of progressed to grime.

- Lady Sovereign

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Writing, Stuff, Firsts, Grime

I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.

- Grimes

topic: Fashion, Want, Sci Fi, High Fashion, Grime

When people ask me if musical theatre should be taught in music colleges, I reply that there is no need. All anyone needs to study is the second act of La Boheme because it is the most tightly constructed piece of musical theatre that there is. It is practically director-proof: you can't stage it badly because it just works too well. If you can write La Boheme, you can write anything. I would also recommend studying Britten's Peter Grimes.

- Andrew Lloyd Webber

source: "Soundtrack to my life: Andrew Lloyd Webber". Interview with Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2006.

topic: Writing, College, People, Musical Theatre, Grime

First, my frame of reference for the Britten opera shifted. I'd always thought of Britten's approach in Death in Venice as another exploration of the plight of the individual whose aspirations are at odds with those of the surrounding community: his last opera returning to the themes of Peter Grimes. As I read and listened and thought, however, Billy Budd came to seem a more appropriate foil for Death in Venice.

- Philip Kitcher

topic: Odds, Venice, Community, Death In Venice, Grime

A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and the grime and soot descend upon him, he can still wander in his garden, does he but close his eyes.

- Beverley Nichols

source: Beverley Nichols (1932). “Down the garden path”, Doubleday, Doran & co., inc.

topic: Eye, Garden, Cities, Grime

There must be a place where hopes and dreams are nurtured, and that place is only within ourselves. A place to clean the grime of life, a place that waits for us to stay and look inside that we might see the truth.

- Cliff Robertson

topic: Dream, Self, Waiting, Grime

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime -- the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling -- until I come to the very thing itself and know it for what it is. My soul. My self.

- John Banville

topic: Self, Soul, Toffee, Grime

This is Rick Grimes being pushed to his absolute limit. And if you think you’ve seen that before, you haven’t. And the Rick Grimes that comes out of this is really going to shock people.

- Robert Kirkman

source: "'The Walking Dead': Robert Kirkman says finale will 'shock people'". www.ew.com. March 25, 2014.

topic: Thinking, People, Limits, Grime

There is nothing unnatural in this world," he said. "An unnatural thing is a thing that could never happen in nature. I happened. I am natural, and the things I want are natural. The power of your mind, and your beauty, even when you've been drugged in the bottom of a boat for two weeks, covered in grime and your face purple and green - your unnatural beauty is natural. Nature is horrifying.

- Kristin Cashore

topic: Two, Purple, Mind, Grime

He inhaled her scent, uncaring of the blood and dirt and grime that permeated her hair and clothing. He was holding her. Finally holding her. “You’re real. You’re real.” She pulled away, looked up at him, the same answering emotion shining in her blue eyes. With a groan, he lowered his mouth to hers. He couldn’t hold back. Nothing in the world would have kept him from kissing her in that moment. He was overcome.

- Maya Banks

source: Maya Banks (2012). “Maya Banks KGI”, p.1063, Penguin

topic: Real, Eye, Kissing, Kissing Her, Uncaring

We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're blessed by our own seed & hairy naked accomplishment-bodies growing into mad black formal sunflowers in the sunset, spied on by our eyes under the shadow of the mad locomotive riverbank sunset Frisco hilly tincan evening sitdown vision.

- Allen Ginsberg

source: Allen Ginsberg, “Sunflower Sutra”

topic: Beautiful, Blessed, Sunset, Locomotives, Grime

Having a Christian worldview means being utterly convinced that biblical principles are not only true but also work better in the grit and grime of the real world.

- Nancy Pearcey

topic: Christian, Real, Mean, Christian Worldview, Grime

He nuzzled my neck, inhaling deeply. “Mmm. You smell so good.” “Oh, yeah,” I said, smirking. “I call this new perfume ‘Le Jungle grime et tropical BO.’ ” “Dirt and sweat. Very sexy.

- James Patterson

source: James Patterson (2012). “Maximum Ride: Nevermore”, p.297, Random House

topic: Sexy, Sweat, Smell, Grime, Tropical

Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

- Bohumil Hrabal

source: Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Dream, Moving, Book, Grime, Briefcases

I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.

- Grimes

topic: Heart, Broken, Care, My Heart Is Broken, Grime

I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared to go through that door and look at the world in all its grime and torment, and still find something of value, no matter how small.

- Colum McCann

topic: Real, Thinking, Doors, Grime

I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.

- Ice T

topic: Real, Thinking, People, Fluff, Roughness

Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this one urban culture bubble; it's not really to do with, "I'm specifically f - ked off about my country and what's going on in my town." We're very much only showing success to artists who impress American artists, and I'm one of them.

- M.I.A.

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Country, Artist, Hip Hop, Grime, Keds

Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Determination, Battle, Grit, Grime, Trenches

Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.

- Andre Bazin

topic: Spiritual, Photography, Eye, Grime

What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday...he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place, and he was in the habit of hoping for it.

- Colum McCann

topic: Real, Light, Darkness, Grime

If man was devolving into a psychotic pit of rotted plasma, [Karl] Rove would be the Alpha of such grime.

- Larisa Alexandrovna

source: "Bush’s Colon - Or the Neutering of Karl Rove". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2006.

topic: Men, Would Be, Pits, Alphas, Plasma

Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.

- George Crabbe

topic: Boys, Fishing, Wife, Grime

Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.

- Junichiro Tanizaki

topic: Past, Color, Weather, Grime

I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'

- Sampha

source: Interview with Ruth Saxelby, pitchfork.com. July 8, 2013.

topic: Cousin, School, World, Grime, Your Cousin