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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• 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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• When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.

  

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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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• In the '80s and '90s, I was really interested in, moved by, exhilarated by, and troubled by rap in all the ways a white person from Brookline, Massachusetts should be. That was music that was making trouble, and it was interesting and provocative trouble.

  

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• There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.

  

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• Before I go to bed, I thank God for blessing me with all the things he blessed me with, and for my family to be safe.

  

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• When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.

  

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• I'd only do Big Brother again if you paid me three times as much money.

  

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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.

  

  Ella Mai
  • Music
  • Mom
  • Inspiration