Quotes by Lizzo - Page 1

I like that I'm not typical. I like that I'm called 'no-genre hip-hop.'
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Typical
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From a young age, I saw and placed importance on spirituality within religion.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Religion
Importance
Spirituality
Young Age
Within
Saw
Placed
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I enjoy female rappers, not because they're female but because I can connect to them more.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Connect
Rappers
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First Avenue is one of my favorite places to play. All along, they've treated me with respect.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Favorite Places
Treated
Avenue
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I don't really shop a lot. I order things online. When I travel, I'll get some pieces along the way.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Online
Shop
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You know what I want, above all things? I want people who are aware of my music right now, to believe in change.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Believe
People
Want
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I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Detroit
Writing
Languages
Cooler
Other Kids
Spent
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I'm glad I'm a woman; I'm glad I'm a rapper because I get to speak to these people who did not get spoken for in this genre.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Genre
Glad
Rapper
Speak
People Woman Who
Did
Woman
Spoken
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I knew a lot of girls who just wanted to be famous, and if that's your goal, that's awesome; that just wasn't enough for me.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Famous
Enough Your Me
Awesome
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Just about anybody is a big girl in a small world but you gotta believe it on the inside, that you can be bigger than the rest of it.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Girl
Believe
Bigs
World
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I'm not a girl who started getting into music and using my femininity to get attention. When I was getting into it, it was all pure skill.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Attention
Femininity
Pure
Skill
Using
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When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa, but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Clique
Melissa
Nickname
Named
Time Me I Am
Time Father I Am
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Everyone looks to an artist for something more than just the music, and that message of being comfortable in my own skin is number one for me.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Artist
Comfortable
Looks
My Own
Skin
Number
Message
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Generally, it's all of this subconscious stuff. I didn't even know what Lizzobangers was about until it was mastered and I got to listen to it.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Knows
Stuff
Subconscious
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No one said, 'This is the best female rapper.' It's more like, 'Lizzo can really rap.' I think its because I'm not that sexy girl. I'm that beast girl.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Female
Rap
Rapper
Sexy
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I was so moved by music that I wanted to create it as well, but once you decide that's what you want to do with your life, to be successful, you have to be business-minded, too.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Moved
Life Music Your
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When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, 'Okay, this is something that I could take seriously.' When I came to Minneapolis, it just refined everything.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Band
Minneapolis
Okay
Refined
Began
Joined
Rock
Rock Band
Seriously
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I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I'm always working on myself, and my music is the same.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Music
Work
Better Person
Negative
Person
Always
Why
Work Music Myself
Somebody
Did
Back
Same
Daily
Working
Negative Way
React
Sit
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I love kimonos because you can just throw them on over anything. Ever since I got my first kimono from Lane Bryant in high school and thought, 'This is amazing; I can wear it with everything!'
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Amazing
High School
School
Since
Anything
Bryant
First
High
Ever
Got
Wear
Over
Lane
Throw
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When we're on stage doing a song about positive body image or another about female empowerment, everyone out there is super into it and right there with us. It's been awesome. I feel like we fit right in.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Positive
Body Image
Empowerment
Female
Song
Stage
Awesome
Image
Super
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When I first saw Destiny's Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music, and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours; it was just so cool to me.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Cool
Fifth
Hours
Radio
Child
Grade
Saw
Seemed
Sing
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If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Confident
However
More Power
Presented
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Seeing people catch a feeling in their spirit and sprint the aisles of the church while my cousins played driving, uplifting gospel stuck with me. I let that same feeling wash over me when I experience and perform music.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Uplifting
Church
Driving
Seeing
Sprint
Stuck
Experience Music Me
Gospel
Played
Perform
Catch
Cousins
Feeling
Wash
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I was raised on gospel. I remember hip-hop and rock music were secular, so basically, for my first ten years living in Detroit, I was on gospel. But when I moved to Houston, that's when I got to open up my musical horizons.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Detroit
Hip Hop
Houston
Moved
Musical
Raised
Rock Music
Secular
Ten
Gospel
Basically
Horizons
Rock
Ten Years
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Dress for your body type. Some people are blessed enough to be able to throw on something that Beyonce wears and it looks amazing. If I try to go against the grain and wear something that my body doesn't like, it's going to show.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Amazing
Beyonce
Blessed
Body
Grain
Looks
Type
Your Body
Against
Show
Wear
Some People
Throw
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When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique. I'm from Houston, so naturally, everyone dropped the second syllable of your name and just put an "O" there.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Father
Houston
Names
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I'm going to make music that reflects me and my life now. So I think people who like my music and who listen to me should appreciate change as well, because I've definitely evolved, and that's a great thing, to celebrate that is what music is all about.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Appreciate
People
Thinking
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There's a lot of influences that I have from Detroit that are subliminal. I mean, I spent the first 10 years of my life there. My mom and dad were born and raised there, so a lot of that rubbed off on me. When I get angry, sometimes a Detroit accent comes out.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Angry
Detroit
Mom And Dad
Subliminal
Life Mom Dad
Accent
Life Dad Mom
Influences
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My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personally, and when something like that happens to you and not around you, you develop a different perception than someone who has never experienced racism a day in their lives.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Black
Different
Dynasty
Excellence
Happens
Mother
Mother And Father
Perception
Racism
Taught
Around
Me Day Black
Develop
Experienced
Father Black Me
Personally
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But millions at one time, beyond gender or race, had their attention fixed on her, and with that power, she chose to flash the word "feminist" all over our TV screens. If that don't do nothin' but make people Google the word, then that should make every feminist in the world proud.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Feminist
People
Race
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Minneapolis just embraced me. There are a lot of weirdos here. It's awesome, because I'm a weirdo. Thankfully, the city embraced me with open arms. A lot about Minneapolis helped carve my musicality and open my eyes. The whole town is so open-minded compared to like, you know, Texas.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Arms
Minneapolis
Musicality
Open Arms
Open Minded
Texas
Weirdo
Whole
Lot
Awesome
Open
Carve
City
Compared
Embraced
Eyes
Helped
Town
Weirdos
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I feel like I've started to create my own culture of being a voice for something, and that's what people want to know about. I love that because I am a woman and because I a rap, and I look the way I look, I can connect with the demographic of people who feel like they have a voice in me.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Rap
Love Culture Me
Connect
Demographic
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Every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world, it's doing a couple things: it's empowering my self-awareness, my body image, and it's also making the statement that we are all bigger than this; we're a part of something bigger than this, and we should live in each moment knowing that.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Girl
Bigger
Body
Body Image
Couple
Empowering
Rap
Self Awareness
Time Moment World
Also
Part
Each
Every Time
Small
Image
Making
Moment
Statement
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I don't look to celebrities for style anymore because I've learned the chain of command. They are being dressed by a stylist who's getting inspiration from a 16-year-old kid running the streets of Melbourne, Australia. Once I learned that chain of command, I just started taking it to the streets.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Running
Australia
Inspiration
Melbourne
Streets
Stylist
Anymore
Celebrities
Chain
Dressed
Learned
Taking
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So every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world it's doing a couple things: it's empowering my self-awareness, my body image, and it's also making the statement that we are all bigger than this, we're a part of something bigger than this, and we should live in each moment knowing that.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Girl
Couple
Knowing
Rap
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The fight still isn't people of colour versus white. It's the people versus the system built to keep us down. That's the first line of the Constitution. And the system is manmade but is made of no man. Everyone, regardless of class, creed, culture and ethnicity can fight the system and help to break it down.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Break
Class
Colour
Constitution
Ethnicity
Made
Versus
White
Everyone
Creed
Fight
Down
Still
Help
Line
Manmade
Regardless
System
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My formative years were in Houston. I was in middle school, and everyone was dropping the last half of their names and adding an 'o' to the end. My little crew that I had, we were an all-female rap group, and everyone had an 'o' at the end of their name. I was Lisso. Then this dude started getting lazy with it, saying Lizzo.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Crew
Dropping
Half
Houston
Lazy
Middle
Middle School
Rap
Adding
Name
Formative
Group
Last
Saying
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So if you can make it through, you know you've got something good, you can handle anything. We've been blessed to grow but at the same time, the hard part is having to wear every single hat. It's exhausting, but it's entirely worth it because on the flip side, the best part about being a touring musician is being a touring musician.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Blessed
Flip
Sides
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So when it comes to being a role model to women, I think it's because of the way that I feel about myself, and the way that I treat myself. I am a woman, I treat myself with respect and I love myself, and I think that if I'm holding myself to a certain esteem and keeping it real with myself, then that's going to translate to people like me.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
People
Real
Thinking
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There's really educated women out there who are feminists and they have read up on their stuff. They can talk to me right now, and school me on some things I've never known, and that's amazing, you are a scholar, you are wise, you are educated. But the unfortunate thing is also the reality, and the fact is, millions of people might not even know who these educated feminists are - hundreds will, thousands maybe.
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Wise
Reality
School
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When I first saw Destiny's Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours, it was just so cool to me. So all of these influences and these styles started to blend together. Eventually, that evolved into me finding the indie scene in Houston. When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, "Okay, this is something that I could take seriously."
Lizzo / Musical Artist
Children
Destiny
Rocks
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