Raphael Saadiq Quotes

• If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats.

  Raphael Saadiq

  Want, Ifs

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• Isaac Hayes told me once, 'There's no such thing as old-school. Either you went to school or you didn't.'

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  School, Old School, Isaac

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• The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.

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  Doing What You Love, Way, Inspired

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• When you love what you do, it pays off, and that's the best reward you could have.

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  Pay, Rewards

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• The reward is when you make the music, not when you get the medal.

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  Rewards, Medal

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• If you really love music, people can tell if you love music. You have to just stick with it.

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  People, Sticks, Music Love

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• I'm using more energy than ever.

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  Energy

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• I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.

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  Play, People, Want

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• It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.

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  Adrenaline, Adrenaline Rush, Audience

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• I'm a dreamer. I watch people. You don't try to become them because you could never become any of those guys. But you hope that some of it, you know, comes off on you at some point in your show, some point in your writing, that it happens to you and this light just shines on you.

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  Writing, Light, Shine On

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• Friendship, harmony, and leadership - pushin' people, just givin' people that push, like I would expect them to do for me, they'd do the same for me in return.

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  People, Return, Harmony

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• I just think, who wants new soul? I want my soul to be the same as Otis Redding, I don't wanna have a new one.

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  Thinking, Soul, Want

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• My mission has always been to do something that suits everybody.

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  Suits, Missions

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• I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

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  Shoes, Long, People

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• Kids are probably frustrated and egos are too much involved and kids don't know how to get together and be kids and start a group and it's kind of sad because I feel like if you come out with three or four people in the beginning, you can be protected and everybody can shield each other. Before you get out there by yourself and get all these people coming at you. I just think it's not really there.

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  Kids, Thinking, People

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• I would love to go to smaller places in the UK such as Manchester and Liverpool and play there. It's much more intimate; you got to get down and gritty, getting closer to the people.

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  Play, People, Down And

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• I feel like I have re-created myself on every album. I try to do that. It's like playing a game with yourself, trying to compete with yourself.

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  Games, Trying, Albums

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• I don't really produce so-called commercial pop music so I haven't changed so much. I've been on the one path always.

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  Path, Produce, Pops

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• Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.

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  Frustration, Profession

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• My UK fans are quite similar to the States but they pay much more attention to the details, that I like. They listen, party, and dance moving through the changing moods of the music with me.

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  Moving, Party, Details

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• I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

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  Artist, Names, Want

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• Back in the day people made music to go on tour. They didn't make music to make a video.

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  People, Video, Goes On

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• You know all these stadiums that U2 are playing? I've played in them. And I'm building up to it again.

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  Building Up, Building, Stadiums

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• When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.

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  Athlete, Having Fun, Looks

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• You can go on 'Saturday Night Live' now and not even play live.

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  Night, Play, Goes On

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