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I'm using more energy than ever.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
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Cats 25 years younger can't run with me.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Cats
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When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Athlete
Fundamentals
Having Fun
Looks
Athletes
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If you want to be like the greats, you learn from the greats.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Ifs
Want
Greats
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You can go on 'Saturday Night Live' now and not even play live.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Goes On
Night
Play
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
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My mission has always been to do something that suits everybody.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Missions
Suits
Mission
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Frustrations are going to be there in every profession you're in.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Frustration
Profession
Frustrations
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The reward is when you make the music, not when you get the medal.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Medal
Rewards
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Every suit I wear is custom-made by a guy named Waraire Boswell in L.A.
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Guy
Made
Suits
Named
Suit
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I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Long
People
Shoes
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When you love what you do, it pays off, and that's the best reward you could have.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Pay
Rewards
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I just follow great people. If you want to play like a pro, you learn from the pros.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Great People
People
Play
Want
Pro
Pros
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I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Names
Raphael
Want
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The way to stay inspired and motivated is by doing what you like, doing what you love.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Doing What You Love
Inspired
Motivated
Way
What You Love
Stay
Love Way Doing
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Back in the day people made music to go on tour. They didn't make music to make a video.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Goes On
People
Video
Music Day People
Tour
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When I come to London now it's like being in L.A., because they know me like I'm at home.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
London
Home Me Know
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It's the adrenaline rush you only get from being in front of an audience. It's addictive.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Adrenaline
Adrenaline Rush
Audience
Addictive
Rush
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I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Golf
Musician
Play
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If you really love music, people can tell if you love music. You have to just stick with it.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Music Love
People
Sticks
Love Music People
Stick
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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.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Building
Building Up
Stadiums
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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.'
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Old School
Isaac
School
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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.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Soul
Thinking
Want
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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.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Path
Pops
Produce
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I honed in on a great time, the Motown era, the '60s and '70s. That type of music has always been a staple in my life.
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Motown
Life Time Music
Great Time
Staple
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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.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Albums
Games
Trying
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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.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Harmony
People
Return
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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.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Down And
People
Play
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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.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Details
Moving
Party
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Growing up in the Bay Area, I played early on with these quartet groups who set guidelines for me. I remember the guys would all have the same clothes and shoes, like these uniforms. I was in awe.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Awe
Bay Area
Clothes
Groups
Growing Up
Guidelines
Shoes
Uniforms
Bay
Quartet
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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.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Light
Shine On
Writing
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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.
Raphael Saadiq / Singer-Songwriter
Kids
People
Thinking
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