Kiesa Rae Ellestad (Kiesza) Quotes
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.
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I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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I find just in terms of free time I'm always envious of people I know who... listen to music, watch films, play games, read books. I have to pick. And I find frequently that if I've got Sophie's Choice, I'll try to keep up with music and keep up with films. So my book reading and comic reading and game playing is terrible and infrequent.
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Our 'realities' are make-believe - whatever we make ourselves believe, we experience.
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People don't take enough advantage of the refrigerator door.
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No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results?
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I was pushing so hard to try and be happy, try and make people happy, and I was killing myself. I was undernourished, dehydrated and had high blood pressure.
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You cannot go wrong by learning classical music because it trains the ear.
