Andra Day Quotes
I knew that I could sing when I was young. I would listen to a lot of jazz; I'm a big jazz fan. When I first got to high school and studied musical theater, I could sing. But I added certain things to my voice, and I realized after graduating high school that this is the kind of voice I had. It's not very nimble, but it's heavy.
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I've been blessed with so many opportunities and so many amazing things throughout this process. But all the while, I remember that the reason that I'm here and the reason that I do music and tell these stories is that people come to know the love, the God that I know.
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Tony Bennett is an iconic jazz legend.
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I'm very obsessed with pop culture of the mid-century and it goes hand-in-hand with the music that I studied in school.
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I'm inherently a chameleon... to not evolve is to not live.
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The elementary school I went to, Valencia Park, was focused on the arts.
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The album 'Cheers to the Fall' is really kind of me breaking out and being like, 'Listen, I don't care about criticism, and I don't care about possibility of failure. I'm going to do it. And if I do fail, well then, here's to it.'
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It would have been so awesome to be born in the Thirties and be in your prime in the Fifties. Except for the whole being black thing, obviously!
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I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn't want to be afraid to blend and experiment.
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If it looks like your grandma's bedsheets, I'll put it on my body.
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My faith was eventually what helped me face myself, tell the truth about everything I had done, face criticism, cope with guilt, pain, and grow from all of it.
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I search for items that have history, like vintage finds - I love fur kitten-heel house slippers from the 1950s - and pieces from fashion houses that have been around for a long time, like Chanel and Dior.
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That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That's why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.
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I struggled academically in high school because it was hard to focus. It was hard to focus on those things that were other than artistic stuff.
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The most amazing thing is being onstage and watching the audience sing every song lyric for lyric.
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At my shows, I like everyone to have a good time... but, I like for us to be real because there's freedom in that.
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Actors and singers share common ground in that they both express something.
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At a young age, I wanted to be a prima ballerina and had these grand ideas that I would go study at Juilliard. It's something I laugh about now.
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I do devotion in the morning. I pray and I read the word.
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I use this GPB glycogen protein balancing conditioner by Aubrey Organics that I love.
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I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.
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I am happy that I can challenge myself in various fields.
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Whichever chord progressions move me, whether it's rock, jazz, doo-wop or soul, I'm going to put it together and not be worried about whether people can put it in a lane or not.
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A pompadour is actually pretty easy for me; it takes me about five minutes.
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My style icons are Lucille Ball for her bouffant hair and all the updos, James Dean for his rockabilly style - the denim and rolled-up T-shirt thing. And I am also inspired by Dita Von Teese and Gwen Stefani. Their style is retro, but it's still very feminine at the same time.