Grace Martine Tandon (Daya) Quotes
I did a show with Tori Kelly, and it was really cool that I got to meet her. She has always been a huge inspiration of mine, and I'm obsessed with her voice, so it was great to get to talk to her about the industry. The best advice she gave me was to just be myself.
Quotes to Explore
-
To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.
-
I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
-
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
-
I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
-
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
-
Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
-
I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
-
You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.
-
I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick before I walk out of the house in the morning. I am really a mum... I know I am a great mother.
-
There's no rule I want to break or ever wanted to break - I find the conventional life gratifying - as long as I can sit at my typewriter, alone, for half a day.
-
I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
-
We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
-
I don't like messing up. I think that's just a part of my personality. I don't like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I'm in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.
-
Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
-
Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
Nastassja Kinski -
And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
-
Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
-
When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
-
I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
-
A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.
-
Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
-
It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received.
-
I did a show with Tori Kelly, and it was really cool that I got to meet her. She has always been a huge inspiration of mine, and I'm obsessed with her voice, so it was great to get to talk to her about the industry. The best advice she gave me was to just be myself.
