I just wanted to make music, and grime wasn't exactly the…

Usually when I make music, in my head I'm like 'this isn't Grimes, this is just some other project that you can release later,…

— Grimes

I've always wanted to make music for films.

— Anirudh Ravichander

I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile,…

— David Lee Roth

When I first started writing lyrics and stuff, I was writing it to garage, and obviously garage kind of progressed to grime.

— Lady Sovereign

If I want to make a grime tune I'll go ahead and do it, but I don't really have the urge to right now.

— Lady Sovereign

I never really was a grime artist. I'm just an artist.

— Lady Sovereign

I wrote a short article called "Yardcore" for that issue, too, as an attempt to talk about the Jamaican influence on garage, grime and…

— Kode9

We don't need Kanye to spit on grime instrumentals to show grime is great.

— Kano

I was making grime before anyone else.

— Dizzee Rascal

Grime is not like messiness or some fingerprints on a cabinet; it takes a long time to accumulate.

— Roz Chast

Me and Skepta, we're kind of from the same world but have totally different-sounding albums. That's why I get funny sometimes when people say…

— Kano

I don't think grime has ever been respected; it's not seen as a nice sound.

— Skepta

“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing…

— Aristophanes

I am looking to get into the grime rap U.K. scene.

— Tom Felton

Grime don't mean nothing, we never called it grime. It's just a word someone associated with us. I wouldn't say all my music's grimy.

— Kano