Santan Dave Quotes

Santan Dave

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 5, 1998

A lot of people devote their lives to me and what I do. It means the most to be able to repay that faith.

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Just be thankful for what you have in the moment, but most importantly, work hard. The things that you work hard on have a lot of impact.

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Sometimes I sit down and I think 'Do I regret this? Do I regret that?' And I feel like everything makes this snowball effect, you know? If you regret something, it's good because it just means that it's something that's affected you enough for you to stop and think... There's a reason that everything happens.

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A very bland eleven-year-old, playing computer games. I went to a local primary school but I wasn't anything special or anything insanely interesting. I didn't have a crazy personality. I was somewhat book smart, but I wasn't hanging off the teacher, nor was I messing up in class. I wasn't doing much to disrupt anything. I was just there, existing.

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For a black person who's Senegalese, growing up in France, or a New York Jamaican, that's a completely different relationship with being black and how you might be accepted in that culture or that world. Everyone's experience is different. Especially black women and black men.

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We're all just humans at the end of the day.

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The biggest lesson that I've learnt is that things can change so quickly, never get used to one thing because everything can flip on it's head.

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As a human, I'd say I'm pretty intermediate.

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Black is confusing. Where does the line start and stop with what is black and what isn't black? People that are mixed-race, or, imagine being from Sri Lanka or Bangladesh, people might say you're black but your features are so non-black, like you've got straight hair, you've got like a sharper nose, or such.

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Grime must be its own genre.

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I think it's crucial to go out and explain to people who you are and where you come from, your hardships - that's the kind of stuff I connect to.

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I'm always looking forward and trying to improve.

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When it gets to that time to tell your mum that you're not going to university, which has been her grand plan for you for the last 18 years, all of a sudden 700,000 YouTube views mean absolutely nothing.

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Prison hosts a lot of normal people, a lot of family men who were caught in a tight situation or in a dark place.

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I want to help people struggling with whatever it is they're going through.

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I learnt what I am not good at: listening, staying focused, turning up on time, following orders... I realised that I was going to have to pull off something special, something different.

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Psychodrama' is a form of therapy and it is just expressing how you feel in whatever way is the most creative to you. Some people act it out, some people sing it out, people find their own different ways.

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I think we internalise a great deal. Music can draw that stuff out of even the hardest person.

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I really enjoy Lana Del Rey, and Pink Floyd are amazing.

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I was drawing before I did music, but me, I'm a dilettante. I jump into everything until I find one thing that I enjoy more than others. Rap was something that was always there because my brother used to rap - piano and musical instruments is something I learnt on the way.

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