Nelly Furtado Quotes
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Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.
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There are tears. There's laughter. There's an unconscious thing happening between us as humans. There's so much about the brain that we don't understand. I believe everybody's empathic.
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When you follow your heart, you always win and it feels so good.
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When you're too concerned about branding, you're restricting yourself.
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Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.
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It was summertime and I was in The Azores, hanging around the small village my parents are from. I was looking out on this very rural setting, on a road going up a hill. There was an old man coming down the hill with a pitchfork on his shoulder. He was wearing gum boots, work pants - and a Coca-Cola T-shirt. I saw that and thought, That's my album!
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Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally. Guys don”t really care, they just want to get the clothes off.
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We can't automatically think about young women in makeup negatively. Sometimes a woman engages in these new forces and energies of beauty coming into her world. They can become tools. She's trying to express her femininity outwardly. I'm still learning too.
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I do feel like I'm a survivor because the music industry is still a boys' club. I really respect all the women in the business. I know trusting yourself is hard work but it helps you avoid all the traps and labels that come with being in this business.
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Maneater -- make you work hard, make you spend hard, make you want all of her love.
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Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring
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I believe the future will reflect different body types, ethnicities, cultures and sexual orientations. I've been working with a lot of young artists who really project an androgynous and inclusive approach to the world. I'm very inspired by that.
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Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.
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I think when you mature, you realize that you really don't have to do anything you don't want to do or be represented in a way that doesn't suit you.
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I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think every woman is different.
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If you're spreading light, you don't care where the sunshine goes.
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Since our online libraries are so extensive, we think we can make all the right decisions about our personal health and well-being by pushing buttons. It's not intuitive anymore. That's the internet. Before the net, we would have gone to the community or our families to see what we should do. We often feel more isolated on our own little islands because of it.
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I actually feel pretty inspired and hopeful by the fact that protests are becoming the norm now. They're less part of fringe society and more a part of mainstream society. That's exciting. There is no fringe anymore. We should all be included.
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When you're scrambling to fill the void in your life and you feel like you're drowning... we all yearn to hear that one friend's voice, say: "You're going to get through this."
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I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot.
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You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct.
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When she walks she walks with passion when she talks, she talks like she can handle it when she asks for something, boy she means it she know you would do [anything] to keep her by your side she'll make you work hard make you spend hard make you want all, all of her she'll make you fall real fast [in love].
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As an artist, comfort can be your worst enemy.
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I'm not into branding - I'm trying to be organic to who I am on every level. I do really connect to being a part of the working class. Those are my roots. My family [consists of] farmers from Portugal, builders, housekeepers and stonemasons.
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I'm having a lot more fun living life. My new motto is "plerking" - I play and work at the same time.
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I'd love to try and teach Donald Trump how to write a song. I'd love to put him in a room with another person - someone who's protesting him at the Women's March. I'd put the three of us in a room and all write a song together. If that can happen, it proves we can get over our differences.
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I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.
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Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.
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I say it's a girls' world.
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In our world, it's a big deal when you have a favourite collaborator and share them.
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