Songwriting is my main thing. I know that I’ll do that for the rest of my life.
EMELI SANDE
Sometimes you feel like a very small drop in this huge ocean.
More Emeli Sande Quotes
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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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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 mean, there’ll always be room for big productions and everything but it’s good to see the other side.
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You’ve got the words to change a nation but you’re biting your tongue.
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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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Sometimes you feel like a very small drop in this huge ocean.
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I was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with people was when I was singing or on stage.
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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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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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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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I feel like ‘Next To Me’ is a great introduction because it’s a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I’m proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.
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Melody is the first thing that comes to me when I’m songwriting. I learned piano classically first, and then I went into soul, and so melody has always been the first. It’s so important.
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Anytime I write something that’s trying to be too smart, it doesn’t work.
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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 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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