Best 20 quotes of Kate Tempest on MyQuotes

Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.

If you ever feel comfortable in what you're producing, you've lost. You're not alive, that's it, it's stagnant water.

I live or die for hip-hop and it's a beautiful form but you're a writer first and foremost.

In London, the most, the biggest thing we have is culture, you know what I mean? That's what we've done for the past 50, 60 100 years, this is what we've done. My worry is that that will change but actually, that will never change because musicians will just go somewhere else.

It's actually a very liberating thing to have a creative community, which is something that we all kind of desperately search for and find in the ways that we can.

My point is is that if you are ever comfortable you're not growing and if, unless you are completely out of your depth, your creativity of whatever you are producing, you will never know how strong your stroke it.

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

The minute you finish a piece of writing it doesn't belong to you, you don't write it any more, it belongs to you, the reader, the listener, the audience. So the less you know about whether or not this is me talking about my life or this is me talking about your life, I think the better. Then it can belong to you and it can live outside of the moment in which it was conceived.

There's enough brackets put on us already, we don't need to bracket our creativity anymore than we do.

When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse; sixteen bar, thirty-two bar, whatever it was. If I had an idea it came out as a rhyme. When I challenged myself to think beyond that, my first thing other than a rhyme that I wrote was a play.

When you know a place, your feet have walked it so many times there's a comfort to it.

When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears, That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.

You don't know how to get yourself out of that deep water until you're in the deep water.

Your job is to facilitate and improve your capacity so that when an idea comes you can facilitate it. That's your job as a human being, in my opinion anyway.

Better to have been a dickhead and seen it, than be a cunt all your life and not know it.

How many yous have you been? How many, Lined up inside, Each killing the last?

I'd never be the person I've become if you had never gone. - We Die

Taking things for granted is a terrible disease. We should all be checking ourselves regularly for signs of it.

True love takes its toll On souls Who are not used to feeling whole

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