Goldie Quotes

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Goldie

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 19, 1965

One of the best-kept secrets in Phuket is Banana beach.

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I see electronic music as loads of monkeys pushing buttons and me being one of them. But I think my album 'Timeless' stands the test of time.

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When I was growing up in the 1980s in the Midlands, I felt abandoned and misunderstood. Then I chose drum 'n' bass and graffiti as my subcultures - which didn't really help.

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I've always felt mixed race. Or as my music teacher said during a lesson: 'You are a mulatto.' I always felt there were white people, black, and then people like me in the middle.

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I think drum'n'bass music did for the electronic world what graffiti did for the world of art because it was raw and everybody wanted to take from the raw.

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I think albums should be dynamic, man.

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I'd like to make my own line of emojis to be honest.

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I think most albums should be 13 tracks, to be fair. It's a matter of interest. It's quality over quantity.

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Me and Wiley have got a lot in common. And not just the fact that we're both a bit nuts.

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I obviously felt a very strong need to be a part of a family. Looking at trains and thinking 'These kids are writing their names from one end of the city to the other,' I finally felt like I'd found one.

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I use the same big studios that everybody else uses, but my attitude once inside is that of a total barbarian.

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That's why I want to screw with the abyss of technology, play God with science, so I can hop, skip and slide back and forth through time.

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I collect paint like I collect sound. And then I use layers, layers, layers.

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If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, you'd get people going: 'Oh, we should make 'Mother' into an opera, it's what he would have wanted.'

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All my experience in film has been quite fleeting and tokenesque.

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I'm understanding theatre a bit more. I've learned that you go over and over stuff. There's a big element of back-story: where have the characters been before, where have they come from?

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I've found a bit of peace in myself.

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I learned everything out of children's homes. The kids had to stick together, we had to unify, and we did that, and I think that was a great thing.

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The weird thing is that 'Maestro' has somehow improved my DJing. When you've been in this music as long as I've been, you can sometimes become jaded. And when I got back from 'Maestro,' I realised the music is being kept in time for me - all I have to do is to wrap as much dynamic around it as I can. DJs don't realise how lucky we are.

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I will certainly be making music as long as I live.

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