Top 42 Ester Dean Quotes
#1. I just write songs from the heart, and you never know who'll like the songs. I try to make sure that I don't allow anybody's expectation to weigh on me. I have my own expectation of life. I believe in letting people be free.
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#2. Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.
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#3. I just like to stay creative. Anything that can keep my mind going.
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#4. I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.
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#5. The mall is good for hearing new music because you hear music everywhere. I like to walk around the mall and hear what the kids are listening to, or what's the feel of Middle America, cause that's what the mall is.
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#6. I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.
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#7. You have to break your fingers to learn how to play guitar.
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#8. I like interior decorating. I really like to build houses. And landscaping, I like that.
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#9. Rhianna don't want you to give her what you think that she wants. She needs you to give her something that's fresh. So you have to bend your voice and bend your personality and bend the music to make sure it sounds like it's new to everybody.
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#10. Acting becomes my real job, writing becomes my second job, and then when I turn 50, I think I'm going to open up an interior decorating company.
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#11. I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl.
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#12. My songs are my hookers. I can't worry about how they are going to be treated; they just need to bring home the bacon.
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#13. I have a thing - I call it magic - but I feel like I can write stuff down in the middle of the night and wake up and it happens. I write what I want in my journal.
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#14. My dream is to star in an animated movie and to have a toy made after me.
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#15. I wasn't comfortable on stage for years. It was good - 18 shows. I want to do it again.
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#16. I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me unless it makes sense. There's a reason to see me.
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#17. I write by myself and then deliver the song. Everybody knows, 'Leave Ester alone when she's in her zone.' Give me a studio and the tracks, and I'll call you when the doctor is done.
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#18. I feel like writing songs is cheating on acting. It's weird.
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#19. I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow.
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#20. If I'm out of town and I'm in a situation where I have to be creative, it has to be hot dogs because that's my comfort food.
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#21. It's so funny because if you tweet your lyrics and then you hear it in a song next week, you're like, 'Hey I had that same idea.' I'm very secretive with my music. We have to send emails password protected. Because once that song gets out, you aren't selling that thing.
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#22. Acting makes me feel broke again, it makes me feel unaccomplished.
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#23. I'm limitless, spontaneous and fearless. I can take direction and also give it. And I don't dwell on celebrity.
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#24. I'm universal. As much as I can get out a 'Firework' with Katy, I can get a 'Lil Freak' out with Usher. Or a 'Lay It Down' with Lloyd. I can get Caribbean as I did on 'Rio,' then go from there to working with No Doubt.
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#25. I did a lot of songs that I sold, but then they never came out and I never got paid for it. You learn real fast that the music industry, in the beginning, you're not going to get paid for a while, and then you start getting the accolades.
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#26. I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.
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#27. I'm going to become a real professional actress.
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#28. I always wanted to be a psychiatrist.
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#29. As long as I can stay creative and used my mind, it can be 20 hours a day. I sleep four hours, so I've got 20 hours.
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#30. I tend to sing opera and showtunes in the shower. I don't know why, but when I get in the shower I turn into this big fat opera lady.
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#31. I've done so much songwriting and I know how to do it.
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#32. Everyone in my family can sing - my momma can sing, my cousins. I was in the third grade and I was that kid who was so bad in school because I could sing.
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#33. People keep putting limitations on themselves and creating this reality that soul music is dead. That's only in their reality. It's not true. To me, Adele is R&B. Bruno Mars is R&B. It's just good songwriting and songs. That is going to last.
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#35. I've walked on hot coals with Tony Robbins.
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#36. I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about.
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#37. I want to create a management company for people like me so that they don't have to give up the way they present [themselves], they just have someone to help them keep their business afloat.
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#38. I'm a very emotional writer. I always need to have a boyfriend. I always need to have some food. I always need to have a heater at my feet, and I drink this thing called Cool Brew, which I found in Louisiana. It's like condensed coffee.
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#39. There are lots of people way more talented than me - but I work more, and I wanted it more. I never waited on anyone else.
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#40. I normally work like a vampire. Around 8 to 9 P.M., what I call 'the spirits' actually show up, and then I just go in the booth and scream on top of a track. I only sing on the mic. I don't sit down and write anything.
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#41. I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves into a massive brand. Songwriters tend to be under someone else's umbrella. If you're building your own legacy, it can't be under an umbrella.
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#42. I try to reach for the stars because if you say you want something small and it happens, you don't believe it. So I try to say something wild and crazy.
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