Dizzee Rascal Quotes

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

As a dancer, I'd dance with broken toes. Just like acting, you compete with yourself and drive forward. That discipline helped in Hollywood.

The accordion came from just having a desire to play music. Somehow, I have slowly taught myself.

My motivation is internal.

I'm a very motivated person. I don't need extra motivation.

I was always self-motivated.

Motivation should come from within each player; if not, it's difficult to get results.

I'm already self-motivated, so I don't really pay attention what people are saying.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

It's a lot about the individual and it's really up to you, how much you dedicate to the fight and how hard you are working and that's where the outcome will come.

I don't write songs, play music and tour, really, for anyone else but myself. It's something that I have to do to stay alive.

It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

I've always been a person who is driven.

The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

I picked up the guitar very late, in a very pagan way - I didn't know how to play, but I knew I had to. I drew and I had a diary, but it wasn't enough; I needed to express more. As soon as I learned two notes, I started to tell a story, which is why, I guess, my music resembles blues or folk.

They have to have an internal motivation. They have to have an inner conviction.

I'm motivated and driven, and I have been from a young age.

I think, since I was a kid, I had that independence of being driven and being motivated in whatever I did, whether school work or a sport or even a hobby.

I'm self-motivated. I'm motivated for myself to be the best I can be - for me to do that, I have to have my own motivation, my own positive energy.

It's not about motivation. It's about what's driven inside of you.

Other people gotta be told when to go to the gym, what to work out, what to work on, what to do. For me, it was always my own self-motivation of maybe just wanting to make it out of Compton. I was like that with everything in my life.

I think motivation is a thing that is inside of you.

I enjoy the music I make because I have to - if I didn't, I wouldn't want to make it, and I wouldn't want it to be heard by other people.