Song Quotes by Goldie

13 Song quotes by Goldie

Goldie’s reflections on Song are compact but revealing. In just a handful of lines he captures the pulse of creation, the feeling of rhythm, and the moments that make a track unforgettable.

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Music is far more than numbers to me - it's where I find peace.

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The music I make is for the inner city.

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I will certainly be making music as long as I live.

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Pat Metheny's my hero, man. I've got so much from Metheny's music.

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When I start a song, I have an image and a story. In many ways, it's more like painting than making music.

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

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

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I think most albums should be 13 tracks, to be fair. It's a matter of interest. It's quality over quantity.

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

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Every genre succumbs to gentrification at some point- as equipment becomes cheaper, as crowds become younger, there seems to be a sheepish…

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I never start a song at the beginning; I always start in the middle, working with the original concept. That might be…

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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…

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You face your demons doing Bikram. You challenge them, beat them.

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Pat Metheny's my hero, man. I've got so much from Metheny's music.

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Technology is not my master; when I use technology, I take it for a joyride.

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Timeless' was always gonna be the blueprint as an artist for me.

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You can be very connected, computers are great, they can get you a ticket to Venezuela in five minutes; brilliant. But if you know…

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I ran to the arts, because the arts are the one thing that would never abandon me.

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Goldie has been around a lot longer than his gold teeth, than the golden locks. Not many people know me. He was a Rastafarian...…

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Mother' is not just about the physical mother but the fact of needing to be mothered, needing to have something that surrounded me.

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