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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Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share.
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Most of our music is about how we perceive the world and how we try to persist as normal, average human beings. So our fans inspire us and give us a direction to go as musicians. And of course, their love and support keeps us going.
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I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.
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Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.
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When you get to the tee on a really long par 5, I know what you're feeling. You want to let the shaft out on the driver and try to bomb it down there. I get the same feeling. But a big tee shot is not always the best strategy, especially on a long hole.
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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.
