Dizzee Rascal Quotes

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound.

You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best stuff when it's all over the map, when there's a couple traditional things, a couple pretty rocking things.

I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.

Your limitations create your sound.

I have never learned to read or write music so I am not a virtuoso musician like the others you mentioned. I am completely unable to play like them because I never learned classical music, I just developed my own crazy style!

The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn. The more I do it, the more I'm humbled. I'm just always trying to get better at it. I pick up a few tricks along the way.

It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio's become the sanctuary that people have come in and found new things out about themselves, as weird as that sounds. But it's true, I'm no different. I've made some crazy hard records, and I've made a jazz album.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great way to weed stuff out.

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

I wish I could sing or play an instrument.

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

I always feel like out of every session that I do, whether it's a record session or even a concert, I like to think that there was something in there that I didn't do before. That's my goal.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

I don't think anybody really super-consciously tries to develop a style to play.