Jazmine Sullivan Quotes

#1. If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

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#2. The person I would trust the most is my mom. She's just really creative ... She's a playwright and she's a musician.

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#3. After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"

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#4. I think a lot of the way that I try to write my stories come from watching my mom write plays and trying to do that.

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#5. I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am.

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#6. I'm not great with breathing, like holding notes. I usually don't. A lot of people wouldn't believe it, but I don't focus on technical stuff ...

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#7. I think the way I write is kind of naturally rhythmic. If there's anything of my own in my writing, I think that's my own thing. Like when I start a song, I almost hear the rhythm more than the melody.

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#8. Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky - this is just what I see.

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#9. The love that I got when I finally did start performing again was all that I needed to just get back out there. Just to know that people were out there and they missed me. That made all the difference.

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#10. I would just be vibing with whatever I liked the most. And then there were a couple songs that I started on my own. I would have a melody or an idea and I would take it to the studio to go through it.

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#11. When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on ...

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#12. Why do we love love when love seems to hate us?

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#13. I put my emotions in my music and I want people to relate to that.

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#14. What's kind of weird is that when I'm writing I don't know where I'm going to go.

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#15. I guess when I got into my preteens, I turned about 12 and I decided to sing R&B, because I felt like one day there were some things I felt like I would want to say, that I couldn't say with gospel music.

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#16. As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, too.

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#17. I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

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#18. I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or pop music and people are not as interested in it. But it's something that I believe in and I feel that it's needed, so that's why I do it and I will keep doing it until everybody hears it and gets it.

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#19. I'm cool with where I'm at. It's certain things I wanna do to be better, but I'm good.

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#20. I loved the feeling I got when I sang. I loved the feeling that it gave to people when I sang.

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