Bibi Bourelly Quotes
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Before I was working professionally, I would do YouTube covers. But as a creative person, it was really hard for me when I wasn't releasing my own music. That felt unnatural to me.
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I love creating things that come from my gut and my soul.
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I'm not a machine that just comes up with records and can give them away easily.
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I've seen people pass away. I've seen how fragile life is.
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I write songs every day, 14 times a day.
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I remember the first time I ever wrote down a song was when I was 6. I was at my friend Emma's house, and we wrote a song called 'Girls' Rules.'
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My dad is Jean-Paul Bourelly, a really prestige guitar player in Europe, and he toured with Miles Davis. I was always surrounded by the most prestige kind of musicians from Senegal, Trinidad, Poland, Nigeria, and all around the world.
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Think about how many dreams die with people - if you don't believe in yourself, whatever you're doing is for no reason.
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There's so much judgment geared toward young girls. People just expect so much from girls. Even physically and aesthetically, people expect us to always look right, to have a certain etiquette - to talk a certain way and act a certain way - and to know certain things. It's all different expectations, but there are always expectations.
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We cannot afford to have lies in music.
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I started writing songs before I could talk - at three or four. It was in me, and I had to get it out. It was all freestyle, which is how I write anyway. I don't write the words down; I scat and come up with the melody, then the lyrics.
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Authenticity can't be replicated or faked. You're either real or you're not.
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Music is the way I talk to people.
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I just am really bad at making new friends - especially in the music industry, because they're not really real friends; they're just music industry friends.
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'Sally' is just a song that I wrote talking to my alter ego. When I write, I don't really consciously say, 'This is what I've been going through in my life, and I'm gonna put this into words.' It's just a song that I kinda went in and did. Then, listening back to it, I realized, 'I'm talking to myself.'
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Me going to college was not an option.
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Working with Rihanna has changed my life.
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I would never say I 'play' guitar. But yeah, I play to write. Same with piano.
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I want my brand and Bibi Bourelly to represent honesty.
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I always do what makes me happy - it doesn't make sense to live life unhappily.