Quotes About Grime

I don't think grime has ever been respected; it's not seen as a nice sound.

Grime music is still a young culture in itself. And my goal is to move it on to a more respected place.

Old Prague was a story-book city caked in grime: ancient, soot-blackened. History lived in every detail: in the deerstalker rooftops and the blue-sparking trams. He wandered the streets in disbelief, photographing everything, images from Kafka crowding into his head. With the turn of every corner it came back to him: the special frisson you get behind enemy lines.

Initially we were spitting lyrics over garage beats, in that eight-bar gap where there wasn't a vocal. But we were rebellious towards garage because they were rebellious towards us; a lot of their gatekeepers said grime was too violent.

There are people who take on different objectives and missions in life. When you grow older, there's a a void - and right now, I'm filling a space where a lot of old rock, grime, hip-hop, punk artists left a vacant space.

I know that I'm in grime, but I had to separate myself and do things myself.

Becoming a commercial scene? I don't think people in grime would be happy about that.

The master bedchamber at the top of a flight of badly worn and mossy stone steps, overlaid with grime, and the hard-dried excrement and remains of vermin—overlooking, from its single (barred) window, a marshy graveyard, the aged markers tilted and filthy from neglect, spiky grasses growing all around, and pools of brackish water interspersed among the graves.

In British music, you have indie, rock... Grime is now one of those pillars. It's a foundation of British music.

I know a lot of grime artists started off on pirate radio, but I missed that era; I was way too young.

You may think it's weird working with a cartoon band but there are a lot of characters in grime, especially since the early days.

We do not dislike everything that shines, but we do prefer a pensive lustre to a shallow brilliance, a murky light that, whether in a stone or an artifact, bespeaks a sheen of antiquity. . . . we do love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colours and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.

If man was devolving into a psychotic pit of rotted plasma, [Karl] Rove would be the Alpha of such grime.

When a man is tired of Ankh-Morpork, he is tired of ankle-deep slurry.

Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving.

Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.

Beneath the rust and grime which dulls the shine of our weathered hearts, joy patiently waits to be rediscovered

Yo, I'm god incarnate. From the grimiest back blocks. Pazienza lyrical equivalent of Sasquatch

Sometimes you have to get down and dirty. It feels good.

The first time I ever played Glastonbury I would have never have thought that a grime artist would have ever headlined it.

Another lean unwash'd artificer.

You can't sit down in a bachelor's house without getting sick with cooties from the dirt and built-up grime, but you can eat off the barrel of his gun.

It's a luxury to slough the dust of the road off your skin, to soap up and stand beneath a spray of warm water, to watch it pool at your feet, grimy and brown, before it circles the drain and disappears forever.

I could lick it off with my tongue, if I had a tongue again, if my tongue was wet, and I could taste it for what it is. Beautiful dirt, grey and vintage, the grime left by life, sticking to the bony roof of a mouth and tasting of next to nothing, which is always better than nothing.