Quotes by Andra Day - Page 2

I always loved music and was drawn to it and affected by it. But it wasn't until I got to San Diego that I started exploring music more.
Andra Day /
Affected
Exploring
San Diego
Music Always More
Diego
Drawn
San
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My style was established in the Forties and Fifties, then got dragged through the decades and picked up a couple more things on the way.
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Decades
Established
Forties
Dragged
Fifties
Picked
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When I'm not working, I still love bright colors and patterns, but I choose pieces that are much more casual - I call it my lazy pinup look.
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Casual
Lazy
Patterns
Bright
Colors
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I actually like the sort of industrial, working-class woman like Rosie the Riveter, so I'm kind of like the sort of street style of the '50s.
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Rosie
Working Class
Street
Industrial
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I try to avoid hairspray, gel, and heat as much as I can - I will use a pomade or a very heavy conditioner to style it the way that I want it.
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Hairspray
Heat
Heavy
Avoid
Gel
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I struggled academically in high school because it was hard to focus. It was hard to focus on those things that were other than artistic stuff.
Andra Day /
Academically
Struggled
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I get people today who say, 'I first heard about you through the Stevie Wonder commercial.' The power of advertising in that way is incredible.
Andra Day /
Advertising
Stevie
Stevie Wonder
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At a young age, I wanted to be a prima ballerina and had these grand ideas that I would go study at Juilliard. It's something I laugh about now.
Andra Day /
Age
Ballerina
Ideas
Juilliard
Study
Wanted
Young
Young Age
Grand
Prima
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It would have been so awesome to be born in the Thirties and be in your prime in the Fifties. Except for the whole being black thing, obviously!
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Awesome
Except
Fifties
Obviously
Thirties
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'Rise Up' is definitely my baby. I think it was a gift because, you know, it's like God just spoke to me and wrote that song. It's very powerful.
Andra Day /
Powerful
Song
God Gift Me
Rise
Definitely
God Me Gift
Spoke
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My father loved music. He loved Motown and R&B, and my mother loved Journey and Fleetwood Mac, so they were always listening to it and playing it.
Andra Day /
Journey
Fleetwood Mac
Motown
Mac
Fleetwood
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I was always inundated with music, whether it be my mother's favorites like Fleetwood Mac and Carole King and the Carpenters, or my dad's jazz music.
Andra Day /
Fleetwood Mac
Jazz Music
Favorites
Fleetwood
Inundated
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My faith was eventually what helped me face myself, tell the truth about everything I had done, face criticism, cope with guilt, pain, and grow from all of it.
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Faith
Truth
Criticism
Done
Guilt
Pain
Had
Face
Grow
Cope
Eventually
Helped
Tell
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Listening to the stories told in jazz music and how those artists expressed their truths about the times and what they were dealing with is what struck me the most.
Andra Day /
Jazz
Jazz Music
Music Me Jazz
Dealing
Expressed
Music Me Listening
Struck
Truths
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Whichever chord progressions move me, whether it's rock, jazz, doo-wop or soul, I'm going to put it together and not be worried about whether people can put it in a lane or not.
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Worried
Chord
Lane
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I play with doing a forehead bun a lot, just a bantu knot right in front of the forehead and keep it in with a clip. And I like doing real pinup styles but based on my natural hair.
Andra Day /
Clip
Hair
Natural
Based
Forehead
Front
Styles
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I was a dancer for long time. And you always hear that ballet is the core of dance, and that - once you have that down - you can do everything else. For me, jazz is like that for music.
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Ballet
Time Music Always
Everything Else
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I didn't want to box it in or say this show caters to this type of person... I think the tide of music is changing. We don't have to worry about rules. We should just do what feels good.
Andra Day /
Tide
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I like the Victory rolls, beehive, pompadour - all of that stuff. It's just cool. And actually, with ethnic hair, oddly enough, it works so well because I don't have to tease my hair to get body.
Andra Day /
Cool
Body
Stuff
Tease
Actually
Beehive
Works
Ethnic
Oddly
Rolls
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It was so surreal, having my parents hear the President and First Lady saying to me, 'Good to see you again! We're so proud of you. We watched you on the Grammys and were like, 'That's our girl!'
Andra Day /
First Lady
Surreal
Good Me Parents
Grammys
Lady
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I was living with my mom in a tiny apartment in Chula Vista, near Third and H Street behind the 7-Eleven. It was crazy to be on the phone with Stevie Wonder. I felt like a meteor hit our apartment!
Andra Day /
Tiny
Wonder
Stevie
Phone
Meteor
Near
Stevie Wonder
Third
Vista
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I went to a performing arts school, and we studied musical theater, jazz vocal performance, and they kind of start you out on those things because they feel like it is a good foundation, and it was.
Andra Day /
Musical Theater
Performing
Performing Arts
Vocal
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When you walk in the front of the White House, the pictures on the walls, they change out pretty frequently. They're all very cool and historical, with pictures from the current term and past terms.
Andra Day /
Historical
Term
White House
Current
Frequently
Walk
Pictures
Terms
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I search for items that have history, like vintage finds - I love fur kitten-heel house slippers from the 1950s - and pieces from fashion houses that have been around for a long time, like Chanel and Dior.
Andra Day /
Dior
Fashion
Fur
House
Items
Long Time
Pieces
Slippers
Vintage
Love Time History
Chanel
Finds
Search
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When I graduated, everyone was like, 'You got to do pop and R&B to make it,' like very contemporary pop and R&B. I tried for a little while, but I just realized my voice wasn't quite fitting some of the records that I was doing.
Andra Day /
Contemporary
Fitting
Graduated
Little While
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The album 'Cheers to the Fall' is really kind of me breaking out and being like, 'Listen, I don't care about criticism, and I don't care about possibility of failure. I'm going to do it. And if I do fail, well then, here's to it.'
Andra Day /
Criticism
Possibility
Breaking
Cheers
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I danced for a while, and I knew I could sing, so I just began singing in a praise band at church and doing musical theater and jazz vocal performance in school. One didn't really lead to another; I was just always interested in the performance arts.
Andra Day /
Band
Church
Jazz
Musical
Musical Theater
Praise
Singing
Theater
Vocal
Arts
Began
Interested
Danced
Lead
Performance
Sing
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I gleaned different style ideas over the years. In Southern California, there is a big rockabilly sub-culture. So when I would go to car shows, I would see women dressed like this. I had a teacher in high school that always had her Bette Paige bangs.
Andra Day /
Bangs
California
Rockabilly
Southern
Southern California
Bette
Dressed
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I decided to see how my voice sounds on different type of records. So I did Eminem and the Biggie, Florence and the Machine, and Muse covers. A couple of them just came from some jam sessions between me and my sister in her bedroom at my father's house in San Diego.
Andra Day /
Sister
Bedroom
Biggie
Decided
Florence
House
Jam
Muse
Records
San Diego
Type
Voice
Came
Covers
Diego
Eminem
San
Sounds
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I've been blessed with so many opportunities and so many amazing things throughout this process. But all the while, I remember that the reason that I'm here and the reason that I do music and tell these stories is that people come to know the love, the God that I know.
Andra Day /
God
Music
Amazing
Amazing Things
Blessed
Process
Reason
Remember
Stories
Love God Music
Love Music Amazing
Come
Love God Amazing
Been
Here
Opportunities
So Many Opportunities
Tell
Throughout
While
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My style icons are Lucille Ball for her bouffant hair and all the updos, James Dean for his rockabilly style - the denim and rolled-up T-shirt thing. And I am also inspired by Dita Von Teese and Gwen Stefani. Their style is retro, but it's still very feminine at the same time.
Andra Day /
Dean
Feminine
Icons
Retro
Rockabilly
Ball
James
Lucille
Same Time
Von
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The reach of Coke and McDonald's is undeniable, and I'm thrilled these iconic brands are joining forces to inspire local communities through messages of peace and motivation in unique ways. It's an added bonus that they are using the lyrics to 'Rise Up' as a part of those messages.
Andra Day /
Bonus
Brands
Coke
Iconic
Inspire
Joining
Messages
Motivation
Unique
Added
Rise
Communities
Forces
Local
Mcdonald
Lyrics
Reach
Thrilled
Undeniable
Using
Ways
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When I heard Billie Holiday's voice, Nina Simone's and Ella Fitzgerald's - there was something about their voices to me that was such a different texture than what I was used to listening to at the time. Hearing those jazz voices were so different, and I think I just gravitated toward it.
Andra Day /
Hearing
Holiday
Jazz
Nina
Texture
Time Me Voice
Ella
Fitzgerald
Toward
Voices
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I was heavily influenced by big voices when I was younger. People like Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, and Patti Labelle really spoke to me. When I got older, I was into Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, and Lauryn Hill, but it wasn't until I started working with a voice coach that I really dove into jazz music.
Andra Day /
Dove
Houston
Jazz Music
Whitney
Aretha
Coach
Influenced
Lauryn Hill
Scott
Spoke
Voices
Younger People
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Soul music is true to its name. It's music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people's spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it helps to heal them, transform them, that never goes out of style. People will always need something to relate to.
Andra Day /
Music
Heal
Relate
Spirit
Style
Always Soul Your
Music Always Soul
Music Soul People
True
Name
Them
Connect
Emotionally
Goes
Helps
Resonates
Something
Soul Music
Transform
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I pray, read the word, and then creative stuff happens here. Problem-solving and all of that comes into that space. So 'Da Box' actually represents my sanctuary and that time. I might look trapped in a box, but I'm actually more free in that box than anyone on the outside looking in or in any other space in my life.
Andra Day /
Problem Solving
Sanctuary
Trapped
Pray
Life Space Time
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My sister and I - she's a musician - we jam all the time. We always play around for giggles with stuff that seem unconventional or stuff that seems funny. A lot of the stuff sometimes is just a response from jam sessions in her room, so she'll be on the guitar or the keyboard, and we'll just start singing and doing stuff.
Andra Day /
Funny
Sister
Guitar
Jam
Musician
Response
Singing
Stuff
Unconventional
Time Start Always
Funny Time Start
Giggles
Room
Seem
Start
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I established early what I was and wasn't willing to accept. People tried to say what I had to do, whether it be pop or R&B, to be successful. Even when I was in the girl group, they would try to make our voices sound very radio-friendly and fit that mold. But even before I got signed, I knew who I was and who I wanted to be.
Andra Day /
Mold
Established
Signed
Voices
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I knew that I could sing when I was young. I would listen to a lot of jazz; I'm a big jazz fan. When I first got to high school and studied musical theater, I could sing. But I added certain things to my voice, and I realized after graduating high school that this is the kind of voice I had. It's not very nimble, but it's heavy.
Andra Day /
Heavy
Musical Theater
Nimble
Studied
Added
Certain Things
Graduating
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That's why I loved Dinah Washington. She sung jazz, but they called her the Queen of the Blues. She had the control and sophistication of jazz in her note selection and how to attack a song or certain lines, but then attacked it with a painful force of blues behind it. That's why I admired her so much, because of that versatility.
Andra Day /
Certain
Force
Jazz
Lines
Painful
Selection
Song
Versatility
Control
Had
Admired
Why
Much
Attack
Behind
Blues
Loved
Washington
Her
Queen
Note
She
Sung
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