Labrinth Quotes
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I'm a musical geek. It's like there's this big, wild universe in my head, and I love to express it.
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I'm from Hackney, and it's an area that is not so pretty, and we have a different way of expressing ourselves than somebody from uptown that has lots of money.
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It's a lot easier producing for people or being in the background, and they can take all the fire from the front. But in order to express the ideas that I have without any kind of contamination, I thought it would be a cool thing to be out front.
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I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages.
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I need to make money, but I don't want to be another guy selling his McDonald's to the pop market.
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I definitely didn't wanna be a one-dimensional artist that you can just put into one box. Because, to me, we're all masters of certain energies, and we all create different colours.
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My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.
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I have eight siblings, and we formed a group called Mac 9. I was Mac 7.
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As a breed, I think artists are never 100% satisfied with their work, and we will always want that little bit of extra time to put the final gloss on it.
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Everyone in my family has been in music - my cousins, my grandmother, my grandfather - so it's quite a big family tree.
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My main thing is I just want to share as much hope and happiness as possible for music. If I can share as many moments and help people believe in themselves... if I can do that, then I'll feel like my job is done.
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I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days afterwards learning that.
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When I listen to a Coldplay record, you're gonna hear an indie band, and you know that's what you're gonna get from Coldplay. With myself, I'm not sure it's the same.
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You can't go up to girls and start talking about minor 7ths and expect to pull. It's not going to work.
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I think, as an artist, I wear a lot of different hats, and people have to join all of the dots.
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I'm all for trying anything once; otherwise, you end up like David Guetta - reproducing the same formula over and over.
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Branding your song is the worst thing you can ever do. That's turning your song into a product.
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I don't ever think it's a good idea to try to recreate the success you've had before; it's all about chasing something fresh and new.
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English urban artists were very used to making secondhand American music, and I thought that was boring.
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My fans are like, 'Lab does what he does,' which is really cool. If I came out with a Jack White rock tune tomorrow, people would be like, 'Yeah, cool man,' which is great.
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One thing I always really enjoyed about Quincy Jones' production technique was that there were so many layers to every song. Like, one week you'd hear a new trumpet-line, then the next week you'd hear - be hearing a new guitar-line.
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I want to be a little bit brave. I want to feel scared sometimes. That's what's going to change the music business, if we have that kind of attitude.
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When you make a record, I always imagine people dancing to it. If the chef thinks it tastes good, then there will be someone who ultimately believes the same thing.
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You've got to live and die by your decisions.