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Benjamin Clementine

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My parents always said that I would be a lawyer or pilot or doctor - and I always just thought that's what I would do. - Benjamin Clementine
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People don't always realize that as a performer, you've got to relive those moments. Memories crash through your brains, and you've got to think about your past and the reason why you wrote the song. All that emotion comes back. - Benjamin Clementine
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I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my first guitar and started writing songs. - Benjamin Clementine
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I know, deep down, that what makes my music what it is are my words. It always starts from me wanting to say something. Once I've run out of things to say, I'll be done. - Benjamin Clementine
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I've learned in the little bit of my life so far that you can't fool people. And so I only tell people what I think about: my ambitions, my dreams, what inspires me. - Benjamin Clementine
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Sometimes it feels like my story overshadows my music. - Benjamin Clementine
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I appreciate my city very much. When I go to America and Europe, and I tell everyone I'm from London, I'm proud. - Benjamin Clementine
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The meaning of love is obviously huge - but for me, it means be nice to people, and people will be nice to you back. Love is a selfless place to be. There is no safer place to be than under the canopy of love. - Benjamin Clementine
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People want a beautiful story. Hopefully my life story is still beautiful, but that metro stuff doesn't make it much more pitiful. - Benjamin Clementine
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I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers. - Benjamin Clementine
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If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I'm aware of it, no matter what happens, I'm always going to have a fake self, and I'm not going to judge my fake self. - Benjamin Clementine
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I accept the fact that angels are great heavenly beings, and I think some people give me the feeling that I'm with an angel. - Benjamin Clementine
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It's amazing how people believe you if you use long words. - Benjamin Clementine
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Where you're from shapes you, but you can actually do whatever you want. - Benjamin Clementine
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I always try to be as discreet as possible, so I wear black. - Benjamin Clementine
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Where I'm staying, near Lafayette Street, Bowery, and Houston, you get different people with different spirits, and that's what I like. - Benjamin Clementine
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Life is life. You have to learn how to forgive people and how to gain forgiveness for yourself. - Benjamin Clementine
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I was on the train; I did play, but I also played in bars, in the streets, at birthday parties for people who discovered me on the train. - Benjamin Clementine
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Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. 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. All of his poems are all like songs, and that's how I always try to start my thoughts. - Benjamin Clementine
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