Goldie Quotes

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Goldie

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 19, 1965

Timeless' is like the little sister, but 'Journeyman' is the big brother - it's what I'll take to the grave.

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Music and art well and truly saved my life really - the light switched on when I discovered art.

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Art and music is so important for young people - the arts need to be supported and I think there are so many Clifford Prices out there like me.

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Childhood was abusive and horrible, I endured some stuff I don't even want to talk about. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

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If I was running a British School of classical music I'd employ Tai Chi teachers to help the conductors at the end of their lessons.

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The separation from my mother at an early age was traumatic.

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From where I've come from, I look back at everything, all these people that influenced my life as a kid growing up in a really bad environment, it just makes it all worthwhile in terms of the recognition.

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We have choices in life when we're young and I think a lot of things were stacked against me.

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I've always been a big champion of saying what we do today creates tomorrow. When you're young, you don't realise all of this stuff, and from an early age I was very conscious of what was going on in my environment.

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I ran to the arts, because the arts are the one thing that would never abandon me.

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I've been moved around my whole life and it's been documented, so if you get paid loads of money to go on TV and act like a right idiot... great stuff!

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I DJ'd my first pirate station from a house I broke into in Haringey.

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Bikram Yoga makes me feel 19 again.

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Your life can change in seconds.

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The layers you get in graffiti, the ornateness, you can hear it in my music. I paint with my music. It's a form of synaesthesia.

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My whole thing with EDM is, if you have integrity and yet you regress in how you've been as an artist, there's something not quite right there. If you're just here to get paid, I find that very culturally indifferent.

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When you go into the studio, you have to know what you're going in there for. I went into the studio because I had a voice and I wanted to change things, and I don't necessarily mean my bank account. The money is almost a B factor, a side product.

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I made my first record at 27, and there are people who are 17 and 18 out there making records.

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I'm eclectic in my tastes because of my trauma. It's madness. It's almost ADHD.

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Yoga changed my life and I'm big into it.

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