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Sometimes you feel like a very small drop in this huge ocean.

Emeli Sande

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.
EMELI SANDE

Creation Expression Intention Myself Path
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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Different Help Home Love Music Myself Piano Thinking
Sometimes you feel like a very small drop in this huge ocean.
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Drop Feeling Ocean Small Time Value Yourself
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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Album Connection Difficult Ourselves People Reflection Time
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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Day Goodness Leaving Music Myself Quick Song Time Work
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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Ambitious Change Feeling Myself People
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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Chart Connection Feeling Moments Ourselves People Talk
Anytime I write something that’s trying to be too smart, it doesn’t work.
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Myself Smart Work Writing
I’m not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there’s no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.
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Category Limitation Music Myself Point Reach Respect
I’d be smiling if I wasn’t so desperate. I’d be patient if I had the time.
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Desperate Myself Patience Smile Time
Songwriting is my main thing. I know that I’ll do that for the rest of my life.
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Life Music Myself Writing
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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Children Important Material Myself Writing
People that come to my shows are definitely people that feel outsiders. They feel like I don’t feel sexy, I don’t feel like – I can’t go out every night on Friday and I can’t connect to that, and I feel so much pressure to do that.
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Connection Feeling Myself Night People
I tried to bang down a lot of doors but Virgin were the only label who believed in what I was doing. I ended up with the label that understood what I was trying to do.
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Believe End Label Myself Try Understand
I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.
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Break Education Music Myself Quiet
The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there’s always a place for that too.
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Focus Huge Myself Place Writing

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