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You’ve got the words to change a nation but you’re biting your tongue.

Emeli Sande

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.
EMELI SANDE

Day Goodness Leaving Music Myself Quick Song Time Work
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
You’ve got the words to change a nation but you’re biting your tongue.
EMELI SANDE

Bite Change Nation Tongue Word Yourself
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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Connection Myself Quiet Shy Sing Stage Time Voice
It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.
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Courage Lost Love Ourselves Protect Sad
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
Sometimes you feel like a very small drop in this huge ocean.
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Drop Feeling Ocean Small Time Value Yourself
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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Important Learning Melody Myself Soul Writing
I 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?
EMELI SANDE

Celebration Love Myself Necessary People Romance
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
Anytime I write something that’s trying to be too smart, it doesn’t work.
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Myself Smart Work Writing
The focus is on singer/songwriters now rather than huge shows. I mean, of course there’s always a place for that too.
EMELI SANDE

Focus Huge Myself Place Writing
Clown’ was written when I couldn’t find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along.
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Believe Label Myself Writing
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
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
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

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