Grime Quotes

Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear.

— Anonymous

Obscenity comes from grime.

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Tom Felton

There wouldn't be no grime without me.

— Dizzee Rascal

I was making grime before anyone else.

— Dizzee Rascal

Grime is now a very talkable subject.

— Big Narstie

Grime must be its own genre.

— Santan Dave

I want to make Grimes a high-fashion sci-fi act.

— Grimes

He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.

— Chinua Achebe

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

— Lady Sovereign

If man was devolving into a psychotic pit of rotted plasma, [Karl] Rove would be the Alpha of such grime.

— Larisa Alexandrovna

Grime music is still a young culture in itself. And my goal is to move it on to a more respected place.

— Bugzy Malone

Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.

— Andre Bazin

Grime 4 Corbyn? I just don't know what I'm supposed to feel about that - does he even listen to grime?

— Dizzee Rascal

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

— Kano

People can't look down on grime anymore, it's an established British genre.

— Dizzee Rascal

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

— Kode9

Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the…

— Charles R. Swindoll

We've been ahead for so long in the U.K., we're so multicultural, and that's the beauty. That's why grime was formed, from…

— Skepta

Some people will never let the grime thing go, but my fifth album is not meant to sound like my first album.

— Dizzee Rascal

You may think it's weird working with a cartoon band but there are a lot of characters in grime, especially since the…

— Kano

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…

— Kano

I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta…

— Sampha

Beyonce's 'Bow Down,' to me, that could be a grime tune. If it's electronic and 140-ish bpm, and people go crazy to…

— Skepta

He inhaled her scent, uncaring of the blood and dirt and grime that permeated her hair and clothing. He was holding her.…

— Maya Banks

A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close…

— Beverley Nichols

I hear all the big department stores like Macy's and Bloomingdale's in the U.S. playing hard hip-hop records to the shoppers, like…

— Skepta

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

— Aristophanes

We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're blessed…

— Allen Ginsberg

The Grime guys have kind of rewritten the blueprint for people as far as creativity, songwriting, ownership, doing your own videos... So…

— Richard Ashcroft

There is nothing unnatural in this world," he said. "An unnatural thing is a thing that could never happen in nature. I…

— Kristin Cashore

Grime, in particular, is not really about pirate radio and local raves on top of pubs anymore. There are things I miss…

— Kano

When people ask me if musical theatre should be taught in music colleges, I reply that there is no need. All anyone…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in…

— Anonymous

An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“Our assholes will be clean but we must never wash our hands. Our immune systems will be strengthened by our being dirty.…

— John Waters

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

— Lady Sovereign

I've been a fan of grime for a while - I used to watch the battles on YouTube when I was younger.

— Denzel Curry

I just watched another person I care deeply about basically turn into Gollum and my heart is broken.

— Grimes

I know that I'm in grime, but I had to separate myself and do things myself.

— Skepta