Estelle Quotes
People are getting ready for music that makes them feel happy again rather than being depressed at the way the world is going right now.
Quotes to Explore
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Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy to swallow are uninteresting... It's good when people have such a polarizing response.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.
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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
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It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
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If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and ideology, I would be happy. Many leaders of the older generation dismiss emerging culture. Those leaders are at risk of becoming a feeble voice-piece without followers. Most of the younger generation is going deaf to the truth.
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I'm just so happy to see my friends and fans in Taiwan, 'cause that's where I'm from.
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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
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The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.
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I defy anyone to produce any evidence that the word 'happy' has ever crossed my lips. I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy.'
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What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.
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Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.
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I'm happy to tell you that having been through surgery and chemotherapy and radiation, breast cancer is officially behind me. I feel absolutely great and I am raring to go.
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A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work.
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If you really don’t enjoy the type of music I make and that’s not you, OK. But don’t say I’m not talented. If you haven’t noticed, I wasn’t made - I was found.
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Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
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Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.
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I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.
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People are getting ready for music that makes them feel happy again rather than being depressed at the way the world is going right now.
