Garage Quote by Kano

Lyrics came quite easy early on in my career. But I always wanted to push it further and stand out a bit more. We…

— Kano

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

— Lady Sovereign

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

— Brian Harvey

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 were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.

— Anonymous

Garage music came up when people weren't paying attention.

— Estelle

I just wanted to make music, and grime wasn't exactly the path that I took naturally. It was something that was put on me…

— Lady Sovereign

Our vocal harmonies started to feel like a cop-out: all group-singing, all the time.

— Robin Pecknold

Sometimes, to be honest with you, our lyrics were written a day before the vocal had to be done.

— Steve Porcaro

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

— Kano

I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound.

— Stephen Mallinder

I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican…

— Damian Marley