Lianne La Havas Quotes
I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.
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I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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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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When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
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I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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We are wiser than we know.
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I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
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I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.
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The beautiful 1940s women were a strong influence for me.
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I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.
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'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their conflict with one another. What the heck is going on in contemporary fairy tales? Women are not dominating the world; they are not evil.
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You have to fall. You have to understand what that feels like. For what I want in my life, and for where I want to go with this music, you gotta be humiliated, man. You gotta understand what that feels like. It just makes you stronger.
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I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
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One thing Drake is known for is putting out good, quality music. To acknowledge me and my music was all I needed to hear from anybody. Nobody could tell me anything after that.
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If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.
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Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating.
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One of the things that EBONY magazine has done for years, decades is perspective. They knew what our audience was, they know who we are, so that's what I hope to do with this show.
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I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.
