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.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINEObviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.
More Benjamin Clementine Quotes
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Happiness is overrated and money can’t justify it.
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[My music] is opposite to fashion.
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I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it’s quite small and contained.
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Composing was more difficult than writing things down.
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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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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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People take things too literal in the Bible and it’s totally wrong.
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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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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.
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Confidence came from people. I think I’m very confident in me, as a human being.
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When you have a lot of fake selves, most of the time it’s because you haven’t had parents around so you try to build characters to protect yourself.
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We’re all competent in different ways, we’ve just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.
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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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In fact, I might be confident for the human race because of what the human race has given me. When I was in the street and bars, people always came up to me and said, “Don’t stop, keep going.”
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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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