M.I.A. Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Phones, Watches, World

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I don't have a community like a black community to belong to [with] a musical platform that's been built for years and years and years, or the film-making culture, and I don't have the white one to belong to.

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  Years, White, Community

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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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  Art, Hate, Ideas

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 17, 2013.

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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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  Space, People, Work Out

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

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  Political, Ifs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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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  Generations, Fields, Next

  Source: thequietus.com

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

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  Real, Missing, Humans

  "Kehinde Wiley". Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

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• Predominantly in the West, if you can only have creative voices that are either black or white, I'm going to say whatever the f - k I want, because no one's going before you, and if no one's coming after you, I'm just going to be the freakiest of all freaks!

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  Voice, White, Creative

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You need everyone to get together and just believe in it, and lead by example that it is possible to be outside the system, and that's really super-f - king hard, and I'm sure there's some geniuses out there who can achieve it.

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  Kings, Believe, Together

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it, and that was valued. Unfortunately now the work lives in a weird context.

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  Art, Luxury, Watches

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I get called "ISIS" now. Why don't we have a name-and-shame weapons dealership website? Instead, we're like, "Oh my God, are you really talking about the refugees again, making yourself into a caricature?" And it's like, "Until you stop the person in your country who's making billions of dollars from selling weapons, yeah, I have to talk about refugees." Whatever I say will get twisted or messed with.

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  Country, Isis, Talking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If you're talking about coexisting and tolerance then you have to live by example, and you can't have shiny people all the time everywhere, which is what breeds that sort of thinking - this is better than this, that is better than that.

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  Thinking, People, Tolerance

  "Something Really Beautiful: An Interview With M.I.A". Interview with Anna Wood, thequietus.com. May 15, 2017.

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• You have to have your fashion stylist person not sell out and sell your s - t to another pop star because they can pay them twice as much, and do it for the belief and the love of art.

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  Fashion, Art, Stars

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I just think that funerals are a lot like death itself. You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.

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  Thinking, Funeral, Wish

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• I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring now.

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  Boring, Controversial

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I dont support terrorism and never have. As a Sri Lankan that fled war and bombings, my music is the voice of the civilian refugee.

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  War, Voice, Support

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• When mayors get together they probably have better conversations and have better notes to share about running different cities, and just do what suits. Basically, like when you combine all the religions and take the best bits, you should be able to combine all the cities and take the best bits, the information, the tried and tested things.

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  Running, Together, Different

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Music that was made in the 60s and 70s did come from a really soulful place. The seed for the songs written in the 90s were planted in those songs, even though they were samples.

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  Song, Made, Sample

  Source: thequietus.com

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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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  Crazy, Kids, White

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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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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  Voice, Might, Music Industry

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think when something becomes a comfortable genre, it's against what street art stood for in the beginning - breaking out of genres and taking art out of galleries. Now street art is in the gallery, and it's all made up into a nice, packaged concept.

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  Art, Nice, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There's a bit of hope that a song can be about anything. If you want to write a song about anything, you can, and you don't have to put it through the process of having it be trendy or cool or generic pop or these types.

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  Song, Writing, Want

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you do get a robot by the end of it. It becomes more robotic as opposed to being more soulful.

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  Wall, Artist, Robots

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore.

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  Mtv, Play, Culture

  "Kehinde Wiley". Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

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• I never pigeonholed myself - the only reason you'd want to pigeonhole is to monetize your business and, as a person, I don't see the importance of doing that. My music took off above the rest of those things: You can just make a song, put it on a CD, and get it out to all these people.

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  Song, Cds, People

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 17, 2013.

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