Sade Adu Quotes

#1. From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.

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#2. To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.

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#3. I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

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#4. If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.

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#5. I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.

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#6. When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.

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#7. I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

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#8. My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.

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#9. The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.

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#10. What could equal the bliss? / The thrill of the first kiss / It'll blow right to you / It's never as good as the first time.

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#11. I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

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#12. People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.

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#13. I don't like looking outrageous.

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#14. There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.

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#15. People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.

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#16. I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.

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#17. I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.

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#18. Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

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#19. My father was a very difficult man.

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#20. When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.

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#21. I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.

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#22. My musical career was an accident.

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#23. I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.

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#24. I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.

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#25. All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

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#26. I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

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#27. London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.

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#28. I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.

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#29. I love writing songs.

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#30. I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

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#31. Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?

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#32. When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.

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#33. Move in space with minimum waste and maximum joy.

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#34. I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

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#35. I'm always late.

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#36. Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.

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#37. When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.

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#38. I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

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#39. I look a lot like my father and his mother.

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#40. Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.

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#41. I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.

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