A Quote by Prodigy

We used to cut out of school and go to Coney Island to record songs almost every day. — © Prodigy
We used to cut out of school and go to Coney Island to record songs almost every day.
I used to cut school sometimes and record songs.
I know Coney Island more than I know Queens and Brooklyn! And I understand everything about it - Coney Island is my home.
It wasn't like we cut songs out; we cut bits of songs, bits of action or bits of whatever. So we would have to go back in get a full orchestra re-orchestrate it, re-score it, re-record it. It's a massive job. But, if there's a demand we can always discuss it.
I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.
I used to work on a carousel on a boardwalk in Coney Island.
I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.
The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown out into the garage. My parents gave me three old 45s - two Supremes records and one Tom Jones record - and I used to come home from school literally every day, go out to the garage, wind this thing up, and play them.
When you love what you do, you just really fall in love with it. Sometimes you record a lot more songs than the album will even hold. You record like 300 songs and only 12 songs go on the album. It takes time. But if you love what you do, it works out.
In the holidays at school, I used to go training with my dad every day. I used to see the hard work that went in behind what was an unbelievable Wigan team.
I was never chasing to make a career out of it, but every day after school, I'd go to my keyboard and play for four hours and make up songs. It was a constant part of my life.
There's no school you can go to where you can study how to run a record label. Every day was a learning experience.
I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
It is true you can be successful without [college], but this is a hard world, a real world, and you want every advantage you can have. I would suggest to people to do all that you can. When I dropped out of school, I had worked in the music industry and had checks cut in my name from record labels and had a record deal on the table, and when I wasn’t successful and Columbia said, ’We’ll call you,’ I had to go back and work a telemarketing job, go back to the real world, and that’s how life is. Life is hard. Take advantage of your opportunities.
I took my son to Coney island, I said "wanna go in the crazy house?", he said "save your money we'll be home soon"!
That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic group of songs. You do have some almost pop songs in there, but you do have your traditional country, story songs. You have your ballads, your happy songs, your sad songs, your love songs, and your feisty songs.
Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.
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