Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night.
IGGY AZALEAFor me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that’s what art is.
More Iggy Azalea Quotes
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Not every artist is a role model.
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Once you go great, you never go good..You never go back, even if you could.
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I found it to be kind of ironic, because I’m white, therefore I’m appropriating culture, but then Eminem won it – who’s white and won it many times – and they didn’t seem to say anything about that. I suspect it was just because they dislike me.
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My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.
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People think I’m more wild than I am. I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.
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Luxury lives in the finer details. It’s a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It’s a mint on your pillow before bed.
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Music is art to me, and you don’t censor art. You don’t go into a museum and censor things.
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A lot of people heard ‘Murda Business’ and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it’s kind of silly and playful.
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I’d known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.
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Pledge allegiance to the struggle.
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T.I.’s my mentor; he’s a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He’s helped me with my career.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It’s a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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I love musk oil. There’s something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.
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First things first, I’m da realest.
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It’s pretty much all women all the time.
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Being talked about like a package – I feel like that all the time.
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Anyone’s happier when they’re not being verbally abused all day long.
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I think that music is still art, even if it’s commercialised.
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No one can break me down. I know my worth and its a beautiful thing.
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I naturally want to be provocative.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that’s what art is.
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There’s a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.
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At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change – that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great.
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Iggy’ was my dog – he was named after Iggy Pop – and ‘Azalea’ is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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No money, no family, 16 in the middle of Miami.
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I started rapping since, like, 14. But I’ve been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard ‘Baby Don’t Cry,’ I’ll never forget.
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