Ella Mai Quotes
My mom used to play a lot of music around the house, and I think that's where I get my inspiration from.
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I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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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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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
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Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
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It's my job to make sure that the people I'm gonna team up with for my music see everything that I'm about: Put all my cards on the table and don't make them guess.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.
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I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.
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You could split hairs and bring up words like 'doo-wop' and terms like 'soul' or 'R&B', but I think pop music is what you want it to be - that's why it's pop.
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I've got some stories to tell, and acting was a way I could express myself and not feel stupid. I fell in love with that.
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My mom used to play a lot of music around the house, and I think that's where I get my inspiration from.
