Benjamin Clementine Quotes

Benjamin Clementine

Profession : Artist

Birth : December 7, 1988

I was on the train; I did play, but I also played in bars, in the streets, at birthday parties for people who discovered me on the train.

Benjamin Clementine

I accept the fact that angels are great heavenly beings, and I think some people give me the feeling that I'm with an angel.

Benjamin Clementine

Most people think a song is a song - three minutes, and you're done. I don't think this way. Songs are my wings. They're what I use to fly. It's very important for me to put everything in the right place.

Benjamin Clementine

Life is life. You have to learn how to forgive people and how to gain forgiveness for yourself.

Benjamin Clementine

Sometimes it feels like my story overshadows my music.

Benjamin Clementine

I'm a very honest person, and I'm quite emotional for a man. If I want to say something, I'll say it.

Benjamin Clementine

It's amazing how people believe you if you use long words.

Benjamin Clementine

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician. All of his poems are all like songs, and that's how I always try to start my thoughts.

Benjamin Clementine

My heroes: Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Nina Simone.

Benjamin Clementine

People say my world is dark. No, there's a lot of lightness in my world. But I know very well that I'm not normal when I'm performing.

Benjamin Clementine

I realised that we're all equal - it's all about helping each other.

Benjamin Clementine

At home and in church - which I didn't go to a lot, I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians - they would ask us, 'What's the shortest verse in the Bible?' and I was the one who always said 'John 11:35' straightaway. It stayed with me: the Bible has stayed with me.

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I've learned in the little bit of my life so far that you can't fool people. And so I only tell people what I think about: my ambitions, my dreams, what inspires me.

Benjamin Clementine

I know, deep down, that what makes my music what it is are my words. It always starts from me wanting to say something. Once I've run out of things to say, I'll be done.

Benjamin Clementine

The thing is: I was quite slow when I was younger. I might have been smart - I don't know - but I was slow talking to people. And as you can see, I don't talk very loud.

Benjamin Clementine

The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really talked to people. I didn't learn to do it.

Benjamin Clementine

I don't think I'm a singer, I think I'm an expressionist. But it takes time to put it in people's minds that this guy is not singing, 'Baby, I want to have you.' This guy is actually thinking about what he's saying. This guy has something to say.

Benjamin Clementine

We always blame other people when things go wrong. For example, family to friends, you think they'll stay by your side, and you realise they never do. But that's life.

Benjamin Clementine

It stayed with me - the Bible has stayed with me. I've grown out of it because, obviously, you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.

Benjamin Clementine

I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.

Benjamin Clementine