Andra Day Quotes

I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.

Andra Day

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• I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Phone
  • iPad

• New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Hand
  • Democracy

• There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Problem
  • Nothing
  • Against

• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Want
  • Problem
  • Complexity

• If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Change
  • Me

• Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Time
  • Love
  • For Her

• Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • World
  • Blue
  • Born

• Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Age

• I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Trying
  • Quality
  • Appreciate

• We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Trying
  • Focus

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Time
  • Fun

• The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Important
  • Water
  • Serious

• In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Good
  • Different
  • Better

• My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Hat
  • Off

• Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • May
  • Think

• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Looks
  • Flowers

• I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Band
  • '80s

• What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Women
  • Poor
  • Cry

• My father was never anti-anything in our house.

  

  Errol Flynn
  • Father
  • House

• You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Up
  • Song
  • Words

• One of them would definitely be the Nelson Mandela gig, when I played the tribute song for him. He was up and dancing, and he really enjoyed it. It was a really lovely occasion.

  

  Joan Armatrading
  • Up
  • Song

• I love the soul sound that the Bee Gees are into now, and that's the kind of feel that I want to have on all my records. Unfortunately, though, I don't write in that vein. I'm better at writing country-rock music because, while I was recording in Miami, the Eagles were working in the studio next door and I was heavily influenced by their soun.

  

  Andy Gibb
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Feel

• I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.

  

  Andra Day
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Song