Grime Quotes

Obscenity comes from grime.

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Tom Felton

Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear.

— Anonymous

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

— Grimes

Grime must be its own genre.

— Santan Dave

Grime is now a very talkable subject.

— Big Narstie

I was making grime before anyone else.

— Dizzee Rascal

There wouldn't be no grime without me.

— Dizzee Rascal

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

— Dizzee Rascal

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

— Andre Bazin

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

— Bugzy Malone

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

— Dizzee Rascal

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

— Kano

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

— Lady Sovereign

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

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

— Larisa Alexandrovna

Grime is its own sound. There's a lot more to it. It's like a sound, culture, style - the way that they…

— Santan Dave

Everyone uses grime as a footstool, but imagine Biggie Smalls started doing hip hop, and it started going well, and then he…

— Big Narstie

“You can't sit down in a bachelor's house without getting sick with cooties from the dirt and built-up grime, but you can…

— Deb Baker

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

— Sampha

Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving.

— Tinie Tempah

It's not just my music. Not everyone just listens to grime now 'cause of Skepta. They like how we speak. They like…

— Skepta

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

Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to…

— George Crabbe

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

— Kristin Cashore

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

I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared…

— Colum McCann

Now, [hip-hop/grime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this…

— M.I.A

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

— Kano

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

— Maya Banks

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

— Aristophanes

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— John Waters

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

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

— Roz Chast

Becoming a commercial scene? I don't think people in grime would be happy about that.

— Skepta

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

— Grimes

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

— Skepta