Skylar Grey Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. Expectations are an evil thing.

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#5. I'm a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews.

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#6. If not me, who? And if not now, when?

Mikhail Gorbachev

#7. 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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#8. If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process.

Friedrich Engels

#9. 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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#10. If we read the scriptures, we shall escape the evils of sin.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.

Matthew Perry

#12. Maybe that's his thing. Maybe he's really that much of a dork. I could be friends with that kind of behavior.

David Levithan

#13. 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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#14. Art must not serve might.

Karel Capek

#15. 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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#16. Writing songs for other people was never the goal for me.

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#17. There are endings. There are beginnings. Sometimes they coincide, with the ending of one thing marking the beginning of another. But sometimes there is simply a long space after an ending, a time when it seems everything has ended and nothing else can ever begin.

Robin Hobb

#18. 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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#19. But do you ever think of me, when you lie? Lie down in your bed, your bed of lies ...

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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. A president is always cosseted by his staff.

Monica Crowley

#24. I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship. Now I got it.

Emily Giffin

#25. 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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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. Once I've learned all those things and gotten through the hard times, I come out feeling really powerful.

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#34. Swear your fealty unto me, this night and forever more, placing none upon the earth above me and mine." Xcor

J.R. Ward

#35. I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.

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#36. There are only two energies at the core of the human experience: love and fear. Love grants freedom, fear takes it away. Love invites full expression, fear punishes it. Love invites you, always, to break the bonds of ignorance.

Neale Donald Walsch

#37. 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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#38. 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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#39. 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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#40. 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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