Top 109 Quotes & Sayings by Dizzee Rascal
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Some people don't want to be helped, they want to do what they're doing, it's all they know.
Music's something that I really wasn't pushed into, it was something I just kinda chose, I just kept pushing myself, and it was all down to me.
You can never have enough winter jackets.
I like that the sight of me can make people happy. That's nice innit? I like that people like my music. I like that you get perks sometimes. Sometimes people treat you better, but through that there's the opposite as well.
I don't think I was ever really a normal kid. I always wanted to do it big, and so I was always on the lookout for strong people I could learn from.
Yeah, I like Three Six Mafia and stuff like that.
I'm from east London.
I swear too much.
Barack Obama embraced hip-hop, man. That's the way he got through to kids.
I think it don't matter what colour you are, it matters what colour your heart is and your intentions.
To an extent, everyone is jealous of everyone.
America is the land of the hustler: it's bigger, bolder, flasher, more in your face, whereas England's more about attention to detail - trying to be refined and classy, and I think a lot of people in the urban scene in this country have had trouble accepting that.
I made hardcore music and that came kind of easy - it was what I knew. But it was a challenge for me to make a big pop tune.
Even I find myself boring sometimes.
Every summer in my old area, Bow, these kids from across the road used to bring out quad bikes in the park. They let me have a go, and I don't know what was wrong with me, but I drove straight into a gate and fractured my big toe. I had this mad limp for ages.
If you want real truth, I'll tell you real truth, even though I know a lot of people aren't gonna like it.
I sometimes think I should write a book. I've seen some things, you know, but it's all there in the songs.
Politicians... say what they say - you might get every now and again a genuine one, innit? But I think people, like, as a whole make the difference.
I don't really class myself as a musician, I can make music but I'm not the greatest technically. There were other people who were technically better than me in school but I knew how I wanted to sound and all I needed was to work out how to do it.
If you are going to work, you might as well follow your heart, because nothing in life is easy and if it's going to be hard, it might as well be what you really want.
Kids need to be taught that your dreams aren't just dreams. Whatever they are, it's OK to push for them.
I dominated the underground and then I dominated the overground, and I did that on my own.
I come from the underground, from the ground.
If you believe, you can achieve, innit.
I pride myself on the energy I put on stage.
I go everywhere quiet - like a ninja. Always have done. Think big, move quiet.
I liked going to the Caribbean, just having nice holidays, do you know what I mean?
I'm not that guy in the suit, speaking the Queen's English. I don't need to be. I've done enough. I can go on 'Newsnight' as me.
That's the difference between me and a lot of rappers. So many are unfit, just puffing all the time.
People can't look down on grime anymore, it's an established British genre.
I'm the first British artist to have two successive number ones on his own independent label.
Sometimes people chat loosely. Sometimes people just speak their minds and what's on their mind ain't necessarily real or facts, so I don't take it too serious. I'm more interested in making the music, I don't really play that.
Rappers and MCs have always had an alias. Building your character, it helps you to get things out.
When you're actually boxing, unless it's a proper grudge match, it's less about beating the person up and more about being better within yourself. Being patient, timing things, like chess, so really, it's as much down to you as what the other person does - and that's life.
Yeah, I love festivals, man.
School would have been pretty dead really for me without music. I liked IT, and English was all right, but that was it.
That's what the world's about - different perspectives.
I'll never run out of things to rap about. Sometimes you sit there and think, 'I can't do it, I can't do it.' Then something happens and you start writing.
I come from nothing, man.
I found it funny I was on 'Newsnight.'
I'm definitely not proud of some of the stuff I did as a youth, but that's where my mind-frame was at one point in my life, and I can't pretend those things didn't happen. I'm not glorifying them, I'm trying to make them into art.
People talk about the pop part - they don't talk about me being an independent artist. I made it look easy, that's the problem!
Hip hop is the way it is because of America.
Seeing different sides of life, seeing different sides of society, that's what London's all about. When I was young my mum always tried to make me do that.
For a bit I was going mad trying to do martial arts twice a week and go to the gym and do weights, but that can make you ill if you balance it with flying around and living like I do, so I narrowed it down.
I'm going to be big like Michael Jackson.
I quite like thai boxing. But then I'm not surprised because I did taekwondo and karate and judo and all of that when I was a kid, and then just stopped when I got a bit older.
I think a black man, purple man, Martian man can run the country... as long as he does right by the people.
I always put people with my kind of background first.
People used to shoot their guns while I was MCing.
I grew up and learnt to hold my own. My mum was doing two people's jobs. It makes you grow up early. There's less people to talk to, less close people, innit? You're going to end up being lonely because you think a bit more.
The name Dirtee Stank came from a lyric I had when I was 17 or 16. Lyrical tank, like my name was Frank, going on dirty, going on stank. It sounded like a good name!
When I go Miami, I go deep-sea fishing. I love doing that.
When I was young I used to watch MTV, Nirvana, or Guns N' Roses.
Where I'm from, there ain't a lot of other options, you know what I'm saying? Entertainment or football or crime. I don't want to spread the message that all you can do is music or sport. You can be anything. Anything. That's the message I like to spread.
Life is hard enough. Life is always going to be hard, so you need to push for what you want.
When you hear 'I Luv U,' that's me doing Three 6 Mafia. That actual track is a mix of 'What's Your Fantasy?' by Ludacris and 'Is That Yo Chick?' by Jay Z. That's my version of that track.
In the end, music was the only option open to me. It was a blessing I pursued it. I put all my energies into it. I didn't care about no other subjects.
I like to work with the best artists, full stop, around the world, and just make things happen man.
I just go to the gym once every few weeks and go training once or twice a week. But it's all pretty random.
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