The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there’s always a place for that too.
EMELI SANDEI try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it’s harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?
More Emeli Sande Quotes
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I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, ’cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else’s songs.
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It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.
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From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.
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I couldn’t help but feel very different from everybody, so I think that’s why I found such a big world in music, and that’s why I kind of – I was an introvert as a kid, but I loved the piano, and that’s where I felt at home.
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I don’t know if I was as ambitious as to change the world, but I do feel like – the reason why I called the album “Our Version of Events” was that I feel a lot of people are not represented in pop music and popular culture.
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I want to speak for people that may not feel like they’re being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a connection between the world around us and the charts.
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I wanted to make an album that melodically people can connect to; something that reflects our times and the kinds of difficulties we face.
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Anytime I write something that’s trying to be too smart, it doesn’t work.
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Sometimes you feel like a very small drop in this huge ocean.
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I’d be smiling if I wasn’t so desperate. I’d be patient if I had the time.
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I think people don’t realize how many hours of practice goes into becoming a musician and getting better.
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Songwriting is my main thing. I know that I’ll do that for the rest of my life.
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You’ve got the words to change a nation but you’re biting your tongue.
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Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It’s not gonna work. Everything that’s good is really instant.
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I wasn’t intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that’s how it came out.
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