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.
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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I’m from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn’t really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards a lot of them.
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Poetry itself is music. I’m just lucky that I can convert it into music.
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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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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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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’m not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.
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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 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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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.
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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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You can’t judge people by their cover.
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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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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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Confidence came from people. I think I’m very confident in me, as a human being.
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