Sonita Alizadeh Quotes
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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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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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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My life was really focused on futbol, but as those things happen in life, my passion for music won over my passion for futbol. But I love what I do. I don't regret it.
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Latinos finally have a genre of music that represents them, and they're supporting reggaeton in such huge numbers that people can't help but notice there's a revolution going on.
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To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.
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Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
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As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.
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Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.
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When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if you were right there living in it, submerged in the culture.
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I grew up listening to Nick Drake. Without him, I would not write music - and 'Pink Moon' is my favourite LP.
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I just want to continue the way I am going.
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Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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I really like listening to music in my car.
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Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.
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I'm not looking for much in a guy, I just want, like, a really nice guy who has, you know, like a job... and the missing half of this golden amulet.
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One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.
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True love is born from understanding.
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Music reaches people in a way that simple spoken words just can't.
