Jazmine Sullivan Quotes
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After you've been away, people's expectations are like, "Well, you better have something to show for it. Tell us why you've been away so long!"
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Why do we love love when love seems to hate us?
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I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or pop music and people are not as interested in it. But it's something that I believe in and I feel that it's needed, so that's why I do it and I will keep doing it until everybody hears it and gets it.
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The person I would trust the most is my mom. She's just really creative... She's a playwright and she's a musician.
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Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky - this is just what I see.
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The love that I got when I finally did start performing again was all that I needed to just get back out there. Just to know that people were out there and they missed me. That made all the difference.
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When I find myself having that much trouble with a song or a character or a story, I tend to move on.
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I would just be vibing with whatever I liked the most. And then there were a couple songs that I started on my own. I would have a melody or an idea and I would take it to the studio to go through it.
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What's kind of weird is that when I'm writing I don't know where I'm going to go.
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I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am.
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I'm not great with breathing, like holding notes. I usually don't. A lot of people wouldn't believe it, but I don't focus on technical stuff.
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I guess when I got into my preteens, I turned about 12 and I decided to sing R&B, because I felt like one day there were some things I felt like I would want to say, that I couldn't say with gospel music.
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If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, That is out there.
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I think the way I write is kind of naturally rhythmic. If there's anything of my own in my writing, I think that's my own thing. Like when I start a song, I almost hear the rhythm more than the melody.
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I think a lot of the way that I try to write my stories come from watching my mom write plays and trying to do that.
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As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, too.
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