Quotes by Sheila E. - Page 1

The break down for kids is communication. Music helps bring that bond.
Sheila E. / Singer
Communication
Break
Bond
Helps
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She wants to lead the glamorous life, but without love, it ain't much.
Sheila E. / Singer
Art
Media
Want
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I love talking to the youth and helping them as much as I can or encouraging them, if I can help them at all.
Sheila E. / Singer
Encouraging
Helping
Youth
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It was very cool to be honored and be acknowledged in that way for the first time ever, being nominated for an Emmy.
Sheila E. / Singer
Honored
Acknowledged
Emmy
Nominated
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The point in me playing with Prince was to let a lot of people know that I can play trap. I don't think people know that.
Sheila E. / Singer
Me People Know
Trap
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What drives me is really just being able to be a blessing to someone, you know. I really enjoy that, and as much as I can do, I will.
Sheila E. / Singer
Blessing
Enjoy
Me Will Know
Me Will I Can
Drives
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Engaging with the audience lets them know I'm approachable. I don't like that whole, 'You can't talk to Sheila E thing' - I don't like that.
Sheila E. / Singer
Engaging
Lets
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The Emmy that I lost, and I can't remember his name, I lost to the man who did the Olympics. So, it was great to lose to him. It's the Olympics.
Sheila E. / Singer
Olympics
Emmy
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For us as entertainers traveling, the schedule gets really crazy - flying all the time, being on a bus tour, changing hotels every day. And it's challenging.
Sheila E. / Singer
Entertainers
Flying
Hotels
Schedule
Tour
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To me, the stage is like my living room, or my home, and when you come over to my house, I have to be a hostess and invite you in so that we can have a great time.
Sheila E. / Singer
Home
House
Living Room
Rooms
Stage
Time Great Me
Come
Living
Time Home Great
Great Time
Hostess
Over
Invite
Room
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Back in the days, the groups and the bands that we listened to were like Earth, Wind and Fire, Santana and Grateful Dead. We don't have a lot of those bands anymore.
Sheila E. / Singer
Fire
Grateful
Wind
Grateful Dead
Listened
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I like being in the back. I've done that for so many years, I'm really comfortable doing it. I don't like the solo thing as much as I like playing drums behind someone.
Sheila E. / Singer
Comfortable
Solo
Behind
Drums
So Many Years
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Don't forget, I was a musician long before I ever met Prince. That's a big difference between me and those other women he's worked with. We operate on the same plane, as equals.
Sheila E. / Singer
Musician
Between
Women Me Long
Big Difference
Women Long Me
Difference
Equals
Met
Operate
Plane
Worked
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I went to a great church here in L.A., gave my heart to the Lord and felt freedom from things I've carried throughout my life that I just thought, 'I don't have to carry them any more.'
Sheila E. / Singer
Church
Felt
Lord
Life Freedom Great
Carried
Carry
Freedom From
Gave
Throughout
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The youth are very important to me, they're the next generation, but I want to instill in kids, even in playing, that it's never too late and there's no right or wrong way to do anything.
Sheila E. / Singer
Instill
Late
Never Too Late
Too Late
Wrong Way
Youth
Generation
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I want to be entertained, so if I want to be entertained, I know if I'm going to play, I want to make sure that you're entertained and that I'm having a great time. I really do love what I do.
Sheila E. / Singer
Love Time Great
Entertained
Great Time
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My genre of music is very eclectic. I might play some Latin jazz, or just go into a spontaneous jazz thing. That's the thing about coming to one of my performances. Not every show is the same.
Sheila E. / Singer
Eclectic
Genre
Jazz
Latin
Spontaneous
Coming
Performance
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Having that music around us all the time, it was so inspiring. But at the same time, I was a kid. I didn't pay attention to any of it. I'd get on the drums and hit them a few times, and then go outside and play.
Sheila E. / Singer
Inspiring
Pay Attention
Drums
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I was running track early in my years and I was breaking track records in sprint running. I was training and I wanted to be in the Olympics. I thought I was going to be able to win a gold medal, and my mind was pretty much set on 'this is what I want to do'.
Sheila E. / Singer
Running
Gold
Medal
Olympics
Sprint
Track
Winning
Years
Breaking
Gold Medal
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That's how we grew up - kinda like Pops would put his drums, his percussion and instruments into the car and we would just go to a facility in the Bay Area and he would say to us, 'You think we have it bad? There are people worse off than we are. Let's go give back to the kids.' And that's how we grew up.
Sheila E. / Singer
Bay Area
Facility
Instruments
Percussion
Pops
Area
Bay
Drums
Worse
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If you are on television, that one night that someone is able to see you, you're talking about millions of people in one day. That's pretty awesome because then it helps you to jumpstart your career, and if you're the one to go out there and perform, people are going to come see you because those millions saw you on the television.
Sheila E. / Singer
Millions
One Day
Television
Awesome
Perform
Night Day People
Helps
Millions Of People
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