Top 100 Solange Knowles Quotes
#1. I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point.
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#2. If I have on a bright red lip, you'll rarely ever catch me with eyeshadow on. It's one or the other for me - pick one feature for the day and really focus on that.
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#3. Mainstream media tends to showcase a very specific kind of Mardi Gras, but my experience of Mardi Gras is very different; it's very cultural.
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#4. Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to being a teenager than just boys.
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#5. You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.
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#7. I'd rather be the cool aunt than the authoritative aunt.
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#8. I'm not sure if it's cause I'm getting old, but my heels have to be 3.5 inch or less, or a chunky heel.
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#9. I was diagnosed with ADHD twice. I didn't believe the first doctor who told me, and I had a whole theory that ADHD was just something they invented to make you pay for medicine, but then the second doctor told me I had it.
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#10. I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.
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#11. I have more to offer than music that is automatically dance.
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#12. I've always loved Dusty Springfield and Martha Reeves.
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#13. I've let go of being a super perfectionist on every single note and wanting the pitch to be absolutely perfect all of the time. I grew up watching the best of the best.
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#15. Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.
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#16. There are a lot of historical lofts in Houston, and it's amazing for me that a lot of them were built in the 1920s. I love the exposed bricks and the very industrial stuff.
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#17. My parents constantly tried to talk me out of being an artist. They had gone through the whole journey with my sister and just wanted me to have a normal teenage life.
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#18. Just going through a marriage and a divorce - which I essentially did by 21 - will give you an insane amount of perspective on life.
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#19. I'm making the music I want to make, in my own space, and it's just incredible to be able to continue to do that.
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#20. My son spends as much time with his dad as he does with me.
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#21. I think the thing about what I want to achieve for the label is it to really be a home for artists who are already developed, who already have a great sense of their artistry or their imaging, who don't really feel or want that marketing push.
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#23. My blog is actually all self-photography unless it's a photo shoot.
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#26. It's always been my dream to look like Mariah Carey in my photos with a microphone. I don't know how she does it. When she sings, she looks perfect.
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#27. I grew up seeing my sister in the studio. I would go to recording sessions and take notes.
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#28. At 15, saying I wanted to do a reggae album after growing up in a snazzy house in Houston - it was kind of random.
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#30. I'd rather be on the cast of 'Love & Hip-Hop' than 'Project Runway.'
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#31. The Fela Kuti Queens - the band members and wives of the late African musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti - are my fashion icons.
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#32. It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.
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#33. Every mom believes her kid's school doodles are amazing, and I'm no different.
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#34. Through style, you can communicate to the world who you are and what you stand for.
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#35. What's important is that my family and I are all good.
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#36. Traveling is definitely something that your average 17-year-old doesn't get to do. One week we're in Japan, one week we're in Australia, one week we're back home going to football games.
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#37. When Destiny's Child released their first record, I don't think I even noticed. I was still at school, and I had my own life in Houston.
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#38. I honestly try to have the approach that this is real life, this is the real world that we live in, and I don't really try to shelter [my son] from a lot of things that he's gonna see when he looks out of the window.
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#40. Beyonce adores my little boy. She takes him everywhere.
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#41. I really enjoy my privacy and being able to walk my son to school every morning and pick him up every afternoon.
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#42. There's a lot of situations where I feel irony involved when R&B and hip-hop is expressed in the indie worlds. There's a lot of times when I feel like the juxtaposition becomes a thing.
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#43. I'm a lot more interested in style than fashion - style is what makes us who we are.
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#44. Why is it so important for you to give back? I honestly feel like it's our responsibility as citizens of the world to ground ourselves in selflessness and all do our part.
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#45. The one thing I'm really excited about is that the Saint Heron shop is not grounded in just fashion and clothing. We have connected with artists and artisans in every landscape.
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#46. I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.
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#47. There's just so, so many overlooked R&B artists and I think it's really about, again, being sensitive to whatever you're addressing culturally. I just always try to have a sensitivity to it and what that might make someone feel.
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#48. With Saint Heron, I really wanted to celebrate and continue to cultivate the community for genre-defying R&B artists.
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#49. As an artist, everybody has the opportunity to celebrate and speak their truth.
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#50. Anytime fashion and music go hand-in-hand and it really is an organic fit, it's amazing.
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#51. I have always had tremendous respect for my sister as an artist, as a woman, and now as a mother.
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#52. Opening Ceremony is my number one favorite place to shop here. It's the only place I'll shop in New York with my son. All of the sales people are so cool; the music is great; it's just like a big fun house, so he stays entertained.
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#53. I feel like I was 30 when I was 17, and I decided to get married and have a baby.
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#54. You have Vampire Weekend who have more African references musically than most African-American artists.
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#55. Luckily, I dated all of the losers ages ago. My love life has been stable for a while.
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#56. I love hip-hop. I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.
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#58. I really feel like because I had my son so young, I didn't want everyone's help. I think people felt entitled to give advice, so I'm always very sensitive to moms and letting them feel their way out.
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#59. The Hadley Street Dream is a tribute to making a vision come to life. My father built a compound on a dessert city block, he saw something in that space we couldn't see. It was years later the album was born right there on Hadley St. He built the studio I started recording the album at.
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#60. I think there's just certain lyrics and certain forms of hip-hop that definitely rang true, again, to a lot of people's truth, but you don't necessarily want to hear someone using that as a just kind of a in-the-moment, fun, careless expression.
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#61. I don't feel like I owe anybody other than my child and my family anything.
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#62. I really fell in love with dance. By the time I was seven, I had dance class six times a week. I was obsessed.
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#63. When you take care of yourself, you're a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.
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#65. I'm happy that I have a beautiful, wonderful, amazing child who's made me a better person.
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#66. I can't take any credit for people dressing like me, you know?
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#67. Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.
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#68. When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so.
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#70. I'm a fan of hip-hop and I love it, I by no means am an expert on it.
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#71. My sister and I were not allowed expensive clothes. We so badly wanted these Fila sneakers as kids, but my mother took us down to the flea market and got imitation ones. Look at the early Destiny's Child videos. You'll see.
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#72. I have a mother who never took no for an answer when it came to her creative pursuits. She started a hair salon in her spare bedroom and four years later had 30 employees.
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#73. I never borrowed clothes from Beyonce when we were growing up. But now my style is a little more tame and hers is a little more adventurous.
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#74. My parents only played Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye. That's when New Kids came out, and we wanted to jam that. My mom was like, "Put that thing off and put my damn record on". So from old school to '90s to recent, it's just always been there.
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#75. I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.It evolves, your taste. It sometimes deepens, in terms of what's out; sometimes it's not as deep in terms of what's out. So it's definitely an evolution. I don't ever claim to be a hip-hop head.
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#76. I'm not very good at writing songs when I have a lot of clutter in my mind.
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#77. I actually was a ballet dancer - I studied ballet from three until 13 - but like very seriously, that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a contemporary ballet dancer. I wanted to go to Juilliard.
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#78. People who live in L.A. don't like to leave their homes because they have so much space. They have the nice kitchens and a cook and a pool. When you live in L.A., there is a sense of isolation in terms of raising a family.
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#79. I can tell you what I really love: when I run into people on the street that tell me they have connected with my music.
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#80. I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in black women's lives.
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#81. There are a lot of times when people are diplomatic about things, and I'm not that type. I'm not afraid to say exactly what I mean.
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#82. So over time, playing shows - after every show we would have pow-wow, I would have notes and we'd go over and we'd really restructure and re-do and now I feel really, really good about the show. But it's taken time.
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#83. I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else.
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#84. I think it's really important for every mother to find their own way.
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#85. If I had to define 'sexy' now, as Disney as it sounds, I would have to say it's about complete and utter confidence.
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#86. Whether it be a red eyeliner or a graphic line on the crease of my lids, I'm more attracted to the ideas of something interesting than being 'pretty.'
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#87. Self-love is really a foundation for everything, and however you practice or express that is so, so important.
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#88. He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.
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#89. I'm super-sensitive when it comes to my sister. I've been known to snap off a little bit behind her.
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#90. It's so sad, actually, how teachers and parents tell their kids, 'You're never gonna be anything.'
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#91. I love music. But I'm not gonna work myself to death. If there ever comes a point where I'm not enjoying it, then I'm not gonna do it anymore. I've promised myself that. I've written it down on paper and signed a contract.
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#92. For me, I always have looked at 'indie' as a term of 'independence.' Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant 'popular' to me; you know, it didn't define a sound.
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#93. I wear short shorts. After 10 years of strenuous ballet, it's the least my legs can do for me.
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#95. Once I had my son, I stopped shopping in stores because it's not an easy process to try on clothes - and I'm not an impulsive buyer. I need to do the dance in front of the mirror, the whole nine yards.
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#96. I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect.
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#100. I think all artists have a different story to tell, and no story is the same.
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