Top 29 Skylar Grey Quotes
#1. Honestly, I don't recommend anyone get into music. If you have something else that you're good at, do that instead. This is a really tough world to live in.
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#2. When I was young, my voice was so strong, and I would annoy people because I had such a loud little voice. And then it changed, and I thought I wouldn't be able to sing again, because I thought you had to sing like Christina Aguilera to be a singer.
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#3. My mom was a folk singer and Celtic harpist. My dad was in a barbershop quartet and my great grandma was an opera singer. As I grew up, I discovered pop music and Top 40 radio, but it was in the '90s, so music was very different then - it was really lyrical.
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#4. I have a tattoo on my foot that says 'it's a whale' in Japanese, because Japanese people kill whales. My stuffed whale was like most children's teddy bear. I took it with me everywhere. I slept with it. I couldn't live without my whale.
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#5. Alex [Da Kid] does have diversity, not just in what he produces, but what he hears. He has this knack for finding talented people.
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#6. I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.
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#7. My mom always puts a grapefruit in my stocking. I like grapefruit, but why put it in a stocking like it's a gift? It's almost as bad as coal.
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#8. One of my biggest problems is I get bored too easily, and I like to experiment too much, to the point where I confuse myself and I confuse my fans.
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#9. I don't watch movie trailers. I just go to the movie, and I don't know anything about it, because that's the only way I appreciate the movie fully.
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#10. I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a story with lots of details. But when you're a songwriter, you have to fit the words to the melody and you can't fit as much in. I'm just a big fan of storytelling.
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#11. Once I've learned all those things and gotten through the hard times, I come out feeling really powerful.
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#12. I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.
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#13. There's this one song called 'Final Warning' that I'm really excited about because I love the contrast of my vocal sounding very soothing and my harsh lyrics.
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#14. I think, honestly, that a lot of people think I'm sad and dark all the time, because of the music I have made. But there's a huge part of my personality that's really energetic, outgoing and goofy.
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#15. I didn't have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didn't know on a creative level what I wanted to sound like, so I had to do a lot of experimenting. It led to a spiral of depression and being broke.
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#16. The best thing that can happen is that a song you've written will live in the world so people can hear it.
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#17. I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.
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#18. I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.
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#20. I'm a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews.
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#21. Anytime someone basically commissions a piece, I write a song based on something personal to them. I go online and I do research on that person - Wikipedia, YouTube interviews, anywhere I can find a piece of information that kind of tugs at your heart a little bit.
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#22. Putting out a debut album is a bit scary - I want it to be just right, so I took some extra time to finish it. Eminem's increased involvement has been such a blessing; I'm getting guidance from an artist I really admire and trust.
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#23. I'm not a big fan of trying to be a sex symbol or any of that stuff because I really like the music to speak for itself.
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#24. I never really focus on writing for other people, to be honest. Every song I've ever written was for me to sing. Maybe if I'm writing for a rapper, but I'd still write it as though it was for myself and then sometimes I'm actually asked to do the part.
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#25. I lived in a cabin in the woods in Oregon, and I'd basically given up on the music industry for an indefinite amount of time. And while I was out there, I came up with a very specific vision of what I wanted my music to sound like.
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#26. Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.
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#27. I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.
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#28. But do you ever think of me, when you lie? Lie down in your bed, your bed of lies ...
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#29. I've been through a lot in the music industry, in life. I've learned that I have to be tough in this world.
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