Goldie Quotes

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Goldie

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 19, 1965

Simon Cowell is the George Bush of the music industry.

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From the age of three, my life has been documented by social workers. There's a file somewhere in Walsall Social Services saying: 'He was a bit difficult today; he was trying to find out about his parents.' Or: 'He locked himself in his room and is collecting beer mats.'

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I had so much anger. So much anger. Particularly towards my mother. I was a really, really angry person, and it was ruining me.

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My entire childhood was a sacrifice: I was in and out of institutes until I was 17. Art has given me a chance to catch up on the years that I lost.

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Too many people are making images of war. If I want to see war, I'll watch the news.

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I'm ahead of fashion: my clothes aren't fashionable at the time, but they become so. I set trends.

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Creating art is like being sick - you bring up all your innermost thoughts, and then you have to ask yourself why you're doing it.

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I don't use producers, I am the producer. I use an engineer as a tool, vicariously.

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Songwriting for me is about zooming into the canvas, not songwriting in a typical sense.

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I was a massive Human League fan, believe it or not.

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I have never engineered a record. I will draw a record and I'll show you what it's gonna look like. And I will design it and sketch it out and show you, you know, the breaks are coming in here. Sixteen bars. Move out. 32 bars and you get this baseline. Repeat this. Ghost it. Take the tops out of that. Make it go thin. Get a filter. Reverse it.

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In New York, I was into Kool G Rap and Polo, KRS-One, that whole big 80s boom.

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I grew up on Steel Pulse, Bob Marley, Public Image Ltd., Sex Pistols, The Jam and somewhere in the middle was The Specials.

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I experienced Hip-Hop first-hand in the Bronx with the boys in New York; people like the Rock Steady Crew and The Dynamic Rockers, I looked at it for what it really was.

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I wasn't a nice person to meet in the back end of the 90s.

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It's very important to understand how the trauma of a life drives the music to really mean something.

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Just no gentrified drum and bass music anymore, please! It's not good for your health.

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Junglists have something to say about the social situation.

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The machinery of the music industry is that you put something into it and it could be chewed up.

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I've always worked with different mediums whether it's melting gold to make teeth, working with wood and paint or bending sound in a music studio.

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