Sade Adu Quotes
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I love writing songs.
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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I look a lot like my father and his mother.
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I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.
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I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.
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Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.
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I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.
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When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.
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People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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I've made sacrifices. I'm not anti-fashion but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.
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Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.
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There isn't a class structure in Nigeria, there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.
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I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.
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People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.
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My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
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My musical career was an accident.
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I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.
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London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.
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I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.
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The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
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When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.
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What could equal the bliss? / The thrill of the first kiss / It'll blow right to you / It's never as good as the first time.
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