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 needs no human justification. God saw fit to include music in the totality of his creation and as such it needs no further justification. This is the starting place for thinking about music, period, full stop, end of report.
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I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
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What I really honestly want is just to be working steadily... I would love to just be on a great TV show and have it run for awhile.
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Music reaches people in a way that simple spoken words just can't.
