Lianne La Havas Quotes

#1. I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.

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#2. Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.

Lianne La Havas

#3. As it almost always was when I'd been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish.

Jaida Jones

#4. Government ... may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another ... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality ...

Abe Fortas

#5. Sometimes on stage I prefer to feel more glamorous, so I'll go all out when it's a stage outfit like sparkly, colorful, and have a certain shape. If someone is watching it from far away they can maybe remember the shape or the color.

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#6. Normally I begin writing a song with just with aim to express something, and sometimes I don't know what I want to express until a sentence comes to my head that will sum up everything about how I'm feeling at the time.

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#7. I maintain that I never expect anything, therefore I'm always pleasantly surprised.

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#8. The dream never stops
But I see the end before I wake up..

Lianne La Havas

#9. I am not unaware that I have the mindset, as contradictory as it may sound, to discover in the world what I am in fact looking for. Perhaps the best pictures are a seamless hybrid of discovery and construction.

Richard Misrach

#10. I love Diane Keaton's style in 'Annie Hall,' but I like to think my own style is like a cross between 'Annie Hall' and Prince.

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#11. I've always had this identity thing. When I was little, I was always changing my handwriting because I couldn't decide which one I liked best.

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#12. I quite like ABBA.

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#13. My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

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#14. I suppose I see myself as a modern soul artist.

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#15. I love vintage and I shop vintage a lot because it's just such great value for money.

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#16. It's the love you have for yourself that's most important.

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#17. I highly recommend time to yourself.

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#18. I like to dress for my shape - I think it's important for women to do that generally - it makes me feel good.

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#19. It's really important that my lyrics are truthful.

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#20. I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

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#21. When I write I find a quiet place.

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#22. How the hell can a person go to work in the morning
And come home in the evening and have nothing to say

John Prine

#23. You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.

Michael Frayn

#24. From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.

M. J. Hyland

#25. I think I'm sort of blind to genre. As long as it has a sort of honesty about it, which I think you'll hear in whatever music you respond to, then I think it doesn't need to be called anything particularly.

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#26. Well, I like shopping.

Lianne La Havas