Solange Knowles Quotes - Page 2

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• It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

  Solange Knowles

  Inspiring, Passion, Honor

  "Solange Knowles Q&A". Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. August 25, 2008.

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• There's just so, so many overlooked R&B artists and I think it's really about, again, being sensitive to whatever you're addressing culturally. I just always try to have a sensitivity to it and what that might make someone feel.

  Solange Knowles

  Artist, Thinking, Trying

  "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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• I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

  Solange Knowles

  Song, Passion, Writing

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

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• You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.

  Solange Knowles

  Opportunity, Records, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I talk very slow. I move very slow. I definitely have that Southern drawl and although I never necessarily participated in the activities that go along with screw. I definitely was a huge fan of screw. Because melodically, I don't ever really sing very staccato or very fast. It's really about a groove; it's really about a vibe.

  Solange Knowles

  Moving, Southern Drawl, Fans

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

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• [Beyoncé ] did a kickass job. You were the most patient, loving, wonderful sister ever. In the 30 years that we've been together, I think we've only really, like, butted heads ... we can count on one hand.

  Solange Knowles

  Jobs, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.elle.com

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• What's important is that my family and I are all good.

  Solange Knowles

  Important, What's Important, My Family

  "Solange speaks on Jay Z fight: 'My family and I are all good'" By Breeanna Hare, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2014.

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• A lot of times I use live musicians, but I don't want it to have that live funky sound so I'll just take the best loop of a drum part and repeat it over and over and over again so that there's consistency and it feels a little bit more programmed. But I have a love/hate relationship with comping as well.

  Solange Knowles

  Hate, Consistency, Want

  "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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• There's a lot of situations where I feel irony involved when R&B and hip-hop is expressed in the indie worlds. There's a lot of times when I feel like the juxtaposition becomes a thing.

  Solange Knowles

  Hip Hop, World, Juxtaposition

  "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 honestly try to have the approach that this is real life, this is the real world that we live in, and I don't really try to shelter [my son] from a lot of things that he's gonna see when he looks out of the window.

  Solange Knowles

  Real, Son, Trying

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

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• He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.

  Solange Knowles

  Son, Listening, Rebellion

  Source: www.npr.org

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• One of the things I'm most proud of about myself is my ability to fail in front of the world. You have to have that attitude when you want to experiment in art, in music, in writing, or in fashion.

  Solange Knowles

  Fashion, Art, Attitude

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I'm really excited that the fashion industry is evolving, doing a much better job at representation, with women of color, women of different shapes, sizes, and creeds. It's been a long time coming... There were issues of tokenism, issues of misrepresentation. I'm optimistic that I see the change, the conversation that these archetypes gotta go. We can be very political and have long weaves down to our asses.

  Solange Knowles

  Fashion, Optimistic, Long

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I'm probably on the internet way more than I should be. I don't know. I love connecting people. I love introducing people to other people who are doing incredible work in the world. And I'm just on the internet too damn much.

  Solange Knowles

  People, World, Internet

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• I remember Björk saying that she felt like, no matter what stage in her career, if a man is credited on something that she's done, he's going to get the credit for it. And, unfortunately, that still rings true.

  Solange Knowles

  Men, Done, Remember

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

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• So much of your identity in junior high is built on who you're with. You see the world through the lens of how you identify and have been identified at that time.

  Solange Knowles

  Identity, World

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

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• I love when rappers have a off-beat, very abstract timing, and he certainly did.And any rapper who really approaches rapping with the art form of songwriting melodically - I know a bunch of rappers who actually go in before they write the lyrics and come up with the melody. And you can hear and feel that difference so much when that's the case.

  Solange Knowles

  Art, Rap, Writing

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think the thing about what I want to achieve for the label is it to really be a home for artists who are already developed, who already have a great sense of their artistry or their imaging, who don't really feel or want that marketing push.

  Solange Knowles

  Home, Artist, Thinking

  "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 think there's just certain lyrics and certain forms of hip-hop that definitely rang true, again, to a lot of people's truth, but you don't necessarily want to hear someone using that as a just kind of a in-the-moment, fun, careless expression.

  Solange Knowles

  Fun, Thinking, Expression

  "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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• The Hadley Street Dream is a tribute to making a vision come to life. My father built a compound on a dessert city block, he saw something in that space we couldn't see. It was years later the album was born right there on Hadley St. He built the studio I started recording the album at.

  Solange Knowles

  Dream, Father, Block

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have gone through many difference phases in my love affair with hip-hop.It evolves, your taste. It sometimes deepens, in terms of what's out; sometimes it's not as deep in terms of what's out. So it's definitely an evolution. I don't ever claim to be a hip-hop head.

  Solange Knowles

  Differences, Hip Hop, Taste

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think every generation has that movement of hip-hop that you know you're playing it and you definitely have that moment of like, "Why am I saying this so enthusiastically? Why am I so stoked and psyched to say these lyrics?"

  Solange Knowles

  Thinking, Hip Hop, Generations

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

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• So over time, playing shows - after every show we would have pow-wow, I would have notes and we'd go over and we'd really restructure and re-do and now I feel really, really good about the show. But it's taken time.

  Solange Knowles

  Taken, Wow, Notes

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I actually was a ballet dancer - I studied ballet from three until 13 - but like very seriously, that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a contemporary ballet dancer. I wanted to go to Juilliard.

  Solange Knowles

  Dancer, Ballet, Three

  "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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