I wasn’t quite used to writing a diary – I didn’t understand why people did it – but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINEEven 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.
More Benjamin Clementine Quotes
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Obviously 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.
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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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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 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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Happiness is overrated and money can’t justify it.
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People take things too literal in the Bible and it’s totally wrong.
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Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
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[My music] is opposite to fashion.
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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 have met a few people, who are so respected in the fashion industry and all around the world, and are still very humble. People who have it all but act like they only just started, it’s beautiful. This is what I want to be.
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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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Composing was more difficult than writing things down.
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There’s a part in every person that has a fake self. We’ve had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.
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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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If you’ve got great parents, once you grow up and have to live by yourself, you’re going to create some fake self as you get comfortable wherever you are.
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