Iggy Azalea (Amethyst Amelia Kelly) Quotes
Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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Music is made up out of these building blocks. Studying how these blocks go together and what they consist of and the math of how it works - it's all the same stuff; it's just different aesthetics that we're talking about.
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Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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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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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.
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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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My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
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A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
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I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.
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I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.
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I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung.
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One thing my wife says is bad about me, is that I still care too much.
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I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music.
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The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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I've learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself like you'd talk to someone you love and reach out to tell your story.
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I have never liked bargains when it came to sex.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
