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William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician.
Benjamin Clementine
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Benjamin Clementine
Age: 35
Born: 1988
Born: December 7
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[My music] is opposite to fashion.
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That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.
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When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life, I was being myself, I was telling people what was happening.
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I've always been shy, but every time that I sing or I perform, when music comes out of me, it is the only thing I can relate to, it's the only thing I can give.
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I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It's amazing how we go to school when we're so young, read all of these books, just trying to memorize them. When you start to live, you don't have to memorize anything.
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People take things too literal in the Bible and it's totally wrong.
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We have the real self and the false self, there's nothing wrong with them, and everyone has both of them.
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On-stage, I definitely want to use my real self because I'm singing to people who believe in what I'm singing, and I believe in what I'm singing, but they shouldn't be fooled because we all have fake selves and it's in there somewhere. It's not pretending to hurt somebody it's just something that comes out of me, from my experience.
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Even if someone thinks there's a mistake I've made on the piano, to me it's not a mistake it's how it's meant to be.
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I felt like I was homeless anyway, so the change in environment wasn't that much of a big deal. I felt pretty much the same. After six months of living on the streets [in Camden], I started singing, busking.
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I think it is all about creating characters, mixing them up with the stars and the light-years, and coming back to Earth, because we're from this universe. We're not just New York or London we're stars.
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I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasis on certain lines.
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You can't judge people by their cover.
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I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.
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The experience that I had in Paris I could never have ever again in my life. This is when I grew up as a young man. I was independent. There was no one there to talk to I didn't even want to talk to anyone. I started to write about what I was experiencing, and I had no choice, so I was never scared.
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