Goldie Quotes

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Goldie

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 19, 1965

You can be very connected, computers are great, they can get you a ticket to Venezuela in five minutes; brilliant. But if you know your music and your history, you can make that work as a tool. If you don't, you're working as a slave to it.

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Just feeling misunderstood sometimes, I guess, has been my biggest downfall.

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Thailand is a really beautiful place, culturally and spiritually. You appreciate it the longer you stay.

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My perfect day is to get up at 5:30 A.M., jump on my scooter and go to the beach.

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You face your demons doing Bikram. You challenge them, beat them.

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I've always seen music as colours, with basses maybe translating to dark blues, and trebles as yellows and ochres and a general sense of lights coming through.

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I honestly believe art and music saved me. Art and music saved my life. I am blessed.

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Anyone who asks if graffiti is really art should be cast out into a field, because they're Neanderthals.

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Timeless' was always gonna be the blueprint as an artist for me.

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I grew up in Wolverhampton, but I was moved around the Midlands because I was in the care system.

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The music I make is for the inner city.

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Urban breakbeat has become the mood of the '90s, like rap was in the '80s.

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Rob Playford is a phenomenal engineer, but he doesn't have his own ideas, he doesn't make his own music. But what he does have is a fantastic width and berth to throw loads of creative ideas at him.

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When I was in the care system, I lived for skating and drawing. I lived on roller skates.

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Impermanence is the greatest gift anyone can have.

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Mother' is something people can't swallow. It was about me visualising my connection with my mother, my journey through her belly, and it's 60 minutes long - it was never going to be understood by the masses.

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If you want to talk about EDM, let's talk about Detroit underground music, Chicago house and let's talk about all the things that got us to this place. We all get on the train of dance music. We need to all respectfully look through the carriages that have come before us and realize how we got here.

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I've lost friends and people that I've admired. The loss of any life is a travesty.

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When I play in Hong Kong I go alternative, from Wu Tang Clan to 'Blue Monday,' and then for the last 45 minutes, if they deserve it, I play beautiful drum 'n' bass.

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Reinvention is the biggest gift I've been given. I've gone from graffiti artist to jewellery maker, urban musician to conductor.

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