Top 25 Mura Masa Quotes

I got into James Blake quite early, like when I was early teen, and that was really important for me.

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.

I grew up on a tiny island called Guernsey, very small population, very isolated culturally but very beautiful and serene.

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.

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.

There’s only so many ways you can cope with being in dire means, and one way is humour.

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.

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.

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.

There was a footballer, Matt Le Tissier, from Guernsey. But as far as music, no, not many people have come out of there.

I think everybody had this weird mix of pubescent rage and sadness, and just pure mania and joy. It’s a really weird time.

I did shows for a while without a rider, actually, because nobody tells you that it comes out of your fee.

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.

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.

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.

I’m very much a nostalgic optimist.

At a young age, I was introduced to Joni Mitchell by my mum. My dad was into progressive rock.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I’m a child of the internet.

The first time I played at Green Door Store in Brighton, which is under the train station. It was sold out by 150 people.

I grew up kind of poor, so like, I know it sounds pretentious, but I don’t really know how to spend money.