Top 35 Santan Dave Quotes

Psychodrama’ is a form of therapy and it is just expressing how you feel in whatever way is the most creative to you. Some people act it out, some people sing it out, people find their own different ways.

Rap, for me, I go at any tempo and any sound of beat and incorporate melody as well.

As a human, I’d say I’m pretty intermediate.

When it gets to that time to tell your mum that you’re not going to university, which has been her grand plan for you for the last 18 years, all of a sudden 700,000 YouTube views mean absolutely nothing.

That’s why the Kanye Wests and the Drakes are just in a different league, because they have the ability to be vulnerable and open.

I like soundtracks. I love Hans Zimmer, the score for ‘The Dark Knight Rises‘ is one of my favourites. I also like ‘Man of Steel,’ ‘Inception,’ ‘Interstellar,’ ‘Braveheart,’ ‘Transformers‘ – Steve Jablonsky with ‘Arrival to Earth.’ ‘Schindler’s List’ too, that’s beautiful.

Grime must be its own genre.

I’ve always had a different ear for music.

I started my first year at college on May 10 2015, and dropped my first video, ‘Black Box‘ on the same day, it’s pretty weird. I’m studying Philosophy and Ethics, Law and Music. Ethics helps a lot with music. Philosophy gives you a great perspective on things; it makes you think deeper about what you’re saying.

I’m always looking forward and trying to improve.

The piano is an instrument I’ve always loved and so I taught myself. As a rapper, who wants to produce more, being able to play by ear helps a lot because I know where I want an instrument to turn or how I want it to sound without having to do too much work.

I learnt what I am not good at: listening, staying focused, turning up on time, following orders… I realised that I was going to have to pull off something special, something different.

I’m not a grime act, I’m not a rapper, nor am I melody man. I just make music.

It’s what I do my entire life when I’m not doing music. If I’m in a hotel room in Sweden, or on a plane to Vancouver, I’m watching football. I’ll try to talk about other stuff, too, but football is a lifestyle.

I’ve given her bragging rights. That’s something my mum’s definitely big on, like any African parent. Like any parent.

Black is confusing. Where does the line start and stop with what is black and what isn’t black? People that are mixed-race, or, imagine being from Sri Lanka or Bangladesh, people might say you’re black but your features are so non-black, like you’ve got straight hair, you’ve got like a sharper nose, or such.

I was drawing before I did music, but me, I’m a dilettante. I jump into everything until I find one thing that I enjoy more than others. Rap was something that was always there because my brother used to rap – piano and musical instruments is something I learnt on the way.

I think we internalise a great deal. Music can draw that stuff out of even the hardest person.

Just be thankful for what you have in the moment, but most importantly, work hard. The things that you work hard on have a lot of impact.

Prison hosts a lot of normal people, a lot of family men who were caught in a tight situation or in a dark place.

Grime is its own sound. There’s a lot more to it. It’s like a sound, culture, style – the way that they dress and speak.

I want to help people struggling with whatever it is they’re going through.

Music and football are two industries where black people excel, because talent is undeniable. You can’t deny an amazing voice. You can’t deny amazing athletic prowess. Physically, it’s evident. But in other industries, circumstance is more of a thing.

When I’m performing, the crowd just disappears, it’s like everyone merges – one big person. You just say the words and people will say the words back to you. And it’s just so rehearsed. I have a lot of songs I couldn’t forget the words if I tried. So you get in there, you lose yourself and it’s all good.

I just can’t belong to a genre, because I don’t know what I would want it to be.

I think it’s crucial to go out and explain to people who you are and where you come from, your hardships – that’s the kind of stuff I connect to.

It was a pleasure to work alongside Sir David Attenborough and Hans Zimmer.

We’re all just humans at the end of the day.

I’ve always like ‘Dragonball Z’ and ‘Naruto,’ that kind of drawing. My older brother draws so he was always drawing ‘Dragonball Z’ characters and so I got into it from there.

For a black person who’s Senegalese, growing up in France, or a New York Jamaican, that’s a completely different relationship with being black and how you might be accepted in that culture or that world. Everyone’s experience is different. Especially black women and black men.

I don’t think that one moment in people’s life should define them. Within reason: I emphasise that.

I wish I could make myself more riveting but I’m quite standard, as the name suggests.

I really enjoy Lana Del Rey, and Pink Floyd are amazing.

I’m not really good in public spaces, I’m not really good with people, I’m not really good at a lot of things.

I like making music when no one’s really there, so it’s just you and yourself: you’re more free.