M.i.a. Quotes - Page 1

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If music's a political place, I'm out.

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That's what I miss, being a real human.

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I feel like I can't really have a comment.

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Just make music; don't talk about politics.

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You have to constantly redefine who you are.

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Everyone has that moment where they just rebel.

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Whoever's inside is inside; whoever's out is out.

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Retirement: a brand new beginning! How wonderful!

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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

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We know that those huge U.S. brands do have political sway.

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Besides, isn't it more exciting when you don't have permission?

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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyones perception of me.

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I feel like a mirror reflecting back everyone's perception of me.

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In England right now you're not good enough until you get validated.

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It's the only thing to do when you're in London - hang out in a taxi.

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Rage and grief are savage companions, but despair is the final undoing.

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Confidence takes constant nurturing, like a bed, it must be remade every day.

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In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

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If right now, culture's so divisive, it just leaves these millions of people like me out.

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I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.

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My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion.

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Businessmen in society are not going to be the ones that promote anything outside of money.

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I fly like paper, get high like planes If you catch me at the border, I got visas in my name

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The music industry is so tied up politically. They're afraid they might let other voices in.

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That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now.

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It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.

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Even if you're frustrated, how do you express yourself? There's no subculture like back in the day.

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I've documented a lot of things myself as a filmmaker. If you want a rockumentary, that's in there.

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If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.

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My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.

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Across the world, on your phone, everybody gets the same list of things to read, listen to, and watch.

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Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?

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What really drives me mad about art is that, in America, the only thing you can do is to take it apart.

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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving.

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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.

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I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.

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With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.

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As an artist, you want to play around with mediums and see if you can get the point across in different way.

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I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop.

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If it's just politics that's running music, f - k that. I'm out of here! I can't think of anything more boring.

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I find the new Justin Bieber video more violent and more of an assault to my eyes and senses than what I've made.

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That's what's inspiring to me - finding someplace where people haven't already seen themselves in a certain light.

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Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.

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I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.

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I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.

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I'm still working out my opinions - it's always a question mark. I leave loads of space open, and people don't like that.

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My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth in a concentration camp.

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Creativity needs time to harness before it goes out, and because that's difficult, memes have become the creative language.

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I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.