Quotes by Mura Masa - Page 1

I'm very much a nostalgic optimist.
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Nostalgic
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I didn't want to just be making music randomly and not have any direction.
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Randomly
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I definitely don't want to appropriate... not in an 'overly PC' way though.
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Appropriate
Overly
Pc
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There's only so many ways you can cope with being in dire means, and one way is humour.
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Humour
Cope
Dire
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At a young age, I was introduced to Joni Mitchell by my mum. My dad was into progressive rock.
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Dad
Mum
Progressive
Young Age
Introduced
Joni Mitchell
Mitchell
Rock
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I like having the radio on, that way you're challenged to listen to things that aren't your choice.
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Radio
Challenged
Choice
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I got into James Blake quite early, like when I was early teen, and that was really important for me.
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Teen
Blake
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I did shows for a while without a rider, actually, because nobody tells you that it comes out of your fee.
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Fee
Rider
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I grew up kind of poor, so like, I know it sounds pretentious, but I don't really know how to spend money.
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Pretentious
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A lot of electronic musicians probably wouldn't be bothered making an album, which strategically makes total sense.
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Bothered
Album
Electronic
Musicians
Strategically
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I've always appreciated having a wide music taste, despite making what a lot of people would call electronic music.
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Appreciated
Despite
Electronic Music
Wide
Music Always People
Electronic
Music People Always
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There was a footballer, Matt Le Tissier, from Guernsey. But as far as music, no, not many people have come out of there.
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Footballer
Matt
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I think the first song I remember hearing was Joni Michell's 'Big Yellow Taxi,' my mom played it for me on the car radio.
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Taxi
Yellow
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The first time I played at Green Door Store in Brighton, which is under the train station. It was sold out by 150 people.
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Brighton
Sold
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I grew up on a tiny island called Guernsey, very small population, very isolated culturally but very beautiful and serene.
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Population
Serene
Tiny
Island
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I think everybody had this weird mix of pubescent rage and sadness, and just pure mania and joy. It's a really weird time.
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Mania
Sadness
Mix
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If you're not changing what you're doing and exploring different parts of your musical output, I think you're slowly dying.
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Dying
Exploring
Output
Different Parts
Slowly
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I think there's a huge pivot in popular music, and just in culture in general, towards art that is vulnerable and emotionally honest.
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Popular Music
Art Music Culture
Emotionally
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I think I can pinpoint the moment that I realized that I enjoyed hip-hop music and it was the video game called Need For Speed Underground.
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Enjoyed
Speed
Video
Pinpoint
Realized
Underground
Video Game
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I was always heavily interested in underground musical movements, the post-dubstep scene; Mount Kimbie were coming out, and bands like that.
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Mount
Underground
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I feel like people are now praying for some authenticity and some human touch to music. There's no simpler outlet to that than guitar and piano.
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Music Guitar People
Outlet
Simpler
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After the first album, I felt like I needed to one up myself - get even bigger features - and I spent six months thinking about that and not making any music.
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Features
Music Myself Thinking
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You're not really taken seriously when you're on SoundCloud because anybody can upload. It's the same as standing on a street corner and trying to push your mixtape.
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Standing
Taken
Corner
Street
Push
Seriously
Street Corner
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The only memorable people who came to Guernsey in my lifetime were Chali 2na of Jurassic 5 - I swear that was the first hip-hop show in Guernsey ever - plus The Hoosiers.
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Lifetime
Memorable
Plus
Swear
Jurassic
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There's a need for music that has urgency and emotional honesty. That's why people are reintroducing themselves to guitar music - that instrument has an ability to emote.
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Emote
Honesty
Urgency
Music Guitar People
Instrument
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Being from a background of dance music and what you might call club music or electronic music, I think something that gets neglected in that scene is personal vulnerability.
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Dance Music
Electronic Music
Neglected
Vulnerability
Electronic
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What's wrong with being a snowflake? I think if you're calling someone a snowflake that just means you've been upset by something they're saying. We're all vulnerable, get over it.
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Over It
Snowflake
Upset
Saying
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When things socially and politically get difficult, punk music suddenly comes back again, and there's just a really healthy pivot away from music that's not humanly understandable.
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Healthy
Punk
Socially
Suddenly
Understandable
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When I started making music I wanted it to have a narrative and be conceptual, but as time went on I thought it was probably more practical for a first album just to have good music.
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Narrative
Time Good Music
Conceptual
Good Music
Practical
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When I was growing up in the early noughties, I remember the time being very serene, peaceful and innocent. But actually there was Tony Blair's oil wars going on halfway across the world.
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Blair
Growing Up
Halfway
Innocent
Oil
Peaceful
Remember
Serene
Time World Remember
Across
Actually
Wars
Early
Tony
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There is maybe a danger of dwelling on the past, but I think that's far less dangerous than moving forward without learning and not being able to find joy in happy memories and things like that.
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Danger
Dwelling
Moving Forward
Far Less
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But I guess the first time I made career money was signing a publishing deal when I was still at uni. That was when I waited to tell my mum that I was dropping out, which was half-way through my first year.
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Dropping
Half Way
Publishing
Signing
Time Money First Time
Waited
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SoundCloud was my first break I guess. I got a little bit of a following.That whole bedroom producer genre was kind of kicking itself into gear, and SoundCloud was becoming more of a hub for producers at the time.
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Bedroom
Hub
Producers
Gear
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I was hedging my bets with university. I always wanted to do music, it was just about waiting for the point when I could confidently say 'okay, I reckon there's enough momentum behind this thing to sustain myself.'
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Music
Enough
Momentum
Okay
University
Waiting
Music Myself Always
Behind
Bets
Confidently
Could
Point
Reckon
Sustain
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I started playing violin when I was about five years old and I learned to read a little bit of music, but that's all been long, long forgotten! I actually quit violin to teach myself guitar and just went from there.
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Forgotten
Teach
Violin
Music Myself Guitar
Quit
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When you meet your idols, I'm not one of those people - like if I saw Prince on the street, I wouldn't say anything. Because I'd want him to meet me. You want to meet people on the right terms or if there's a reason for you to meet.
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Idols
Me Street People
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It's very white in Guernsey, not racist, but there's not a lot of understanding about different cultures there. So I grew up there then moved to Brighton and found all these other people with different experiences, different narratives.
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Brighton
Different Cultures
Moved
Understanding
Cultures
Experiences
Narratives
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All punk music is is rebellion, going against the grain. It takes different forms. Sometimes it's a band throwing their instruments around or making really violent and noisy sounds, but it doesn't have to take that sonic form. It can take more of an energy.
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Grain
Noisy
Rebellion
Throwing
Sonic
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The way streaming is going, this movement in the market of music would suggest that doing a long-form project, especially for a new artist like me - someone who relies on a lot of digital following - it would make more sense for me to release the songs individually.
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Release
Streaming
Music Me New
Individually
New Artist
Suggest
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If you grew up in London's East End you'd probably be inclined to be into something like grime music. But if you're removed from it, like in Guernsey, you can have a wider set of influences, and you're not tied down to any genre or any scene. I think that affects my sound, for sure.
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Tied
Affects
Inclined
Influences
Wider
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I was at Sussex University studying English lit and philosophy, I had two essays due in and three seminars that day, and at the same time I was messaging my manager because I'd just started to put together the pieces of like, 'Wow. I really don't want to be doing any essays anymore. Why don't I just give this music thing a go?'
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Essays
Lit
Seminars
Time Music Together
Due
Messaging
Studying
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