Little Simz Quotes
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I haven't knocked all the doors I need to knock down, but I can see it happening more and more. It will just take more perseverance and work.
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I like to refer to myself as king sometimes, not as queen. That's a conscious decision, because I feel like women are just equally as powerful.
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I have a good family. I have good friends. I have people that actually care about my wellbeing as opposed to just work and just need me for work or whatever. Like, people that genuinely look out for me and my health, knowing how much work I put in.
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I'm aware that as much as people like hearing and listening to my music, it's also very therapeutic for me to be able to express myself some way - how I'm feeling, how I'm thinking, and just saying what's in my heart and on my mind. I need to do that to maintain my sanity.
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I'm just a bit of a dreamer, and I get really in my thoughts. I get so deep with myself at times it's almost very scary.
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I enjoy albums, not a song here and there. The recordings I like have been a soundtrack to a universe.
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I've worked really, really hard on my lyricism.
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Music is like therapy, you know? It's my escape. It's my way for me to express my feelings and my thoughts.
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I never knew listening to a song could give you goose bumps and make you cry until I listened to Lauryn Hill.
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When you feel like a musician you listen to is like you, then they don't feel so far away, and whatever you want to get to isn't so far away.
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I like it when people have good flow, but I also like it when people actually say stuff. Because sometimes that's a very good distraction, like, to have impeccable flow, but you're saying a lot without saying anything.
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I don't dress to impress; I've never been that person.
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I did a show in Germany, and some kid - he was disabled - he was actually in a wheelchair, and he came out to my show, and he couldn't get across to me what he was trying to say, and you could see that he was frustrated because he couldn't fully express himself, and I just felt like, 'Wow, he's just really passionate about me.'
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The very first song I ever wrote was called 'I See Between The Trees,' when I was 9. It was really bad.
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The whole point of an album is to understand the artist and enjoy the music - it's supposed to make you want to go to a concert to see them in the flesh and get the album on vinyl and be a part of everything. That's what I'm about.
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Just because I'm British and I represent London to the core, that doesn't necessarily mean I have to stay there.
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I'm a rapper and, obviously, hip hop rap is my main thing. But I also like to dive into different genres and kind of be a bit more experimental and open myself up a bit, whether that's taking influence from jazz or soul or electronic.
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I could probably say one thing that I'm excited about is I definitely wanna be an entrepreneur and be a humanitarian and that stuff.
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Sometimes I look at music as like movies. And so I feel like you can have your comedies, and you can have your dramas, and you can have your romances or whatever.
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I chose to continue independent because, at the time I was being offered deals, it wasn't fitting into what I'd imagined. I decided to take a gamble on myself and see what happens.
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I just always want to be as transparent as possible.
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I'm not an 'out there' person if it's not on stage or if I'm not around people I'm most comfortable with.
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I'm an artist. I'm a musician. I'm not someone you can put in a box.
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I'm not easily satisfied with things. I always want to do better. I always want to improve. I always want to grow.