Solange Knowles Quotes

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• You get educated by traveling.

  Solange Knowles

  Travel, Journey, Educated

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.

  Solange Knowles

  Giving, Decision, Explanation

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Style is the way we communicate who we are to people before we open our mouths.

  Solange Knowles

  People, Style, Communicate

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• As an artist, everybody has the opportunity to celebrate and speak their truth.

  Solange Knowles

  Artist, Opportunity, Speak

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Frannie Kelley, www.wbur.org. February 12, 2014.

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• I have to learn how to say no a lot. Life is too short for anything else.

  Solange Knowles

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is, Too Short

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• I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in Black women's lives.

  Solange Knowles

  Thinking, Hair, Other Cultures

  "Exclusive: Solange Knowles Shares Her Natural Hair Secrets" by Corynne Corbett, www.essence.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I actually love my natural hair when it's in a twist out and it's been slept on for five days and revived by the steam of the shower.

  Solange Knowles

  Hair, Twists, Natural

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just feel so much joy and gratitude that people have connected to it in this way. The biggest reward that I could ever get is seeing women, especially black women, talk about what this album ['A Seat at the Table'] has done, the solace it has given them.

  Solange Knowles

  Gratitude, People, Joy

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was working through a lot of challenges at every angle of my life, and a lot of self-doubt, a lot of pity-partying. And I think every woman in her twenties has been there - where it feels like no matter what you are doing to fight through the thing that is holding you back, nothing can fill that void.

  Solange Knowles

  Fighting, Thinking, Challenges

  Interview With Beyoncé, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 10, 2017.

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• I love music. But I'm not gonna work myself to death. If there ever comes a point where I'm not enjoying it, then I'm not gonna do it anymore. I've promised myself that. I've written it down on paper and signed a contract.

  Solange Knowles

  Paper, Music Love, I Love Music

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• We are getting an education of a lifetime. We're actually out there in the real world.

  Solange Knowles

  Real, World, Lifetime

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Women face a lot of challenges every day - we have to stand firm in our walk and our intentions - but there are times when that weight feels too heavy, feels like a load that I just can't bear that day. I try to work through that in my art, whatever medium that might be. My live performance is based around the color red, and all the things that communicates as a woman to the world - fiery, really vocal, present, almost a kind of stubborn color - and redefining it as being very complex. Being able to express that complexity, I'm getting a lot better at that the older I've gotten.

  Solange Knowles

  Art, Challenges, Trying

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I'm a fan of hip-hop and I love it, I by no means am an expert on it.

  Solange Knowles

  Mean, Hip Hop, Fans

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". "Microphone Check" with Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. February 12, 2014.

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• I always have looked at "indie" as a term of "independence." Never associated a sonic gesture with that in the same way that pop music has always meant "popular" to me it didn't define a sound. And I think now that has been the context for things. If something is indie, it almost has this sonic association with it, or pop has become this term of shame almost, like, bubblegum sweet pop.

  Solange Knowles

  Sweet, Thinking, Independence

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Frannie Kelley, www.wbur.org. February 12, 2014.

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• Our mother always taught us to be in control of our voice and our bodies and our work, and she showed us that through her example. If she conjured up an idea, there was not one element of that idea that she was not going to have her hand in. She was not going to hand that over to someone. And I think it's been an interesting thing to navigate, especially watching you do the same in all aspects of your work: Society labels that a control freak, an obsessive woman, or someone who has an inability to trust her team or to empower other people to do the work, which is completely untrue.

  Solange Knowles

  Mother, Team, Thinking

  Interview With Beyoncé, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 10, 2017.

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• I've also learned to only write songs and melodies that really work for my voice and that I won't have issues doing live. Because you can get really, really comfortable in the comping process: out of five takes, maybe one of those high notes that you struggled to do, nailed it, and then live you're having that challenge of really having to recreate that.

  Solange Knowles

  Song, Writing, Voice

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Frannie Kelley and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, www.npr.org. February 12, 2014.

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• When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so.

  Solange Knowles

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.

  Solange Knowles

  Albums, Tables, Lineage

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I really don't listen to anyone that I'm not proud of saying that I listen to. Even if it's something a little bit more unexpected, I didn't get too deep into the Waka, Gucci records, but I like those with pride.

  Solange Knowles

  Pride, Records, Proud

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Frannie Kelley, www.wbur.org. February 12, 2014.

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• I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.

  Solange Knowles

  Believe, Artist, Marketing

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Frannie Kelley, www.wbur.org. February 12, 2014.

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• I remember being really young and having this voice inside that told me to trust my gut. And my gut has been really, really strong in my life. It's pretty vocal and it leads me.

  Solange Knowles

  Strong, Being Real, Remember

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• There were things that had been weighing heavy on me for quite some time. And I went into this hole, trying to work through some of these things so that I could be a better me and be a better mom to Julez and be a better wife and a better friend and a better sister.

  Solange Knowles

  Mom, Wife, Trying

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I've let go of being a super perfectionist on every single note and wanting the pitch to be absolutely perfect all of the time. I grew up watching the best of the best.

  Solange Knowles

  Letting Go, Perfect, Best Of The Best

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Frannie Kelley, www.wbur.org. February 12, 2014.

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• I actually produced other people's vocals for a long time when I first signed my publishing deal and I had just sort of decided that I only wanted to be a writer. I would be in all of these writing sessions, and a lot of times my publisher would say, "You should get a demo singer to sing it because then it doesn't identify as a Solange song."

  Solange Knowles

  Song, Writing, Long

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Frannie Kelley, www.wbur.org. February 12, 2014.

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• My parents only played Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye. That's when New Kids came out, and we wanted to jam that. My mom was like, "Put that thing off and put my damn record on". So from old school to '90s to recent, it's just always been there.

  Solange Knowles

  Mom, Brother, Old School

  Source: www.npr.org

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