Quotes by Snoh Aalegra - Page 1

I don't like flying... it's a fear of mine.
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Flying
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In my music, I bare it all; it's really naked.
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Naked
Bare
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Emotionally, I've always worn my heart on my sleeve.
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Worn
Emotionally
Sleeve
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Sometimes I'm very feminine - I wear tight skirts and pumps.
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Feminine
Skirts
Tight
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I listen to rap a lot. I love Nas, Damien Marley, and Lauryn Hill.
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Marley
Lauryn Hill
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It's not very easy to impress No I.D., you really have to work hard.
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Impress
Work Easy Hard
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I just want people to feel what I feel when I hear music that I love.
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Love Music People
Hear Music
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This fragrance 'Parisienne' by YSL was my fave back when I lived in London.
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Fragrance
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If my music can be part of the soundtrack to your day, that's such an honour.
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Honour
Music Day Your
Soundtrack
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I lost my dad in 2009 and on my album 'Feels,' it's about all different feels.
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Dad
Feels
Lost
Album
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Drake is super versatile. He always has a lot of emotional moments on his albums.
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Albums
Versatile
Drake
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I realized home is wherever you're surrounded by positive people who love and support you.
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Surrounded
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With 'Feels,' I was in a really long relationship with somebody, so the songs were about that.
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Relationship
Feels
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Above all, I'm very genuine with my music. I would never sing about something that I can't stand for.
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Genuine
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I'm from Sweden, where it's winter, like, half the year. And it's dark - we barely have any daylight.
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Dark
Daylight
Half
Sweden
Winter
Barely
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I'm definitely inspired by Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, James Brown, Lauryn Hill.
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Brown
Houston
Whitney
Jackson
James
Lauryn Hill
Stevie Wonder
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I like to tell stories in my writing but I definitely use my own life experiences to tell that story.
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Life Experiences
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I've been obsessed with music since I was a little girl. I knew I wanted to be a singer when I was 9 years old.
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Little Girl
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I've been in situations, when I was younger, when I had people forcing me doing stuff that they don't want to do.
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Me People Doing
Forcing
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One book that I just think is absolutely beautiful is 'The Kite Runner.' I'd recommend that one to any and everyone.
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One Book
Recommend
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In Sweden we have a jazz festival, and I would try to see all these people like Angie Stone there when I was younger.
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Jazz
Sweden
Younger
Festival
Stone
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This lipstick by MAC called 'Kinda Sexy' has been a favorite for years now and is one of my essential beauty products.
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Beauty
Lipstick
Products
Sexy
Favorite
Essential
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There's racism everywhere in the world; it's not just Sweden, it's everywhere, but other than that I had a pretty okay upbringing.
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Okay
Racism
Sweden
Upbringing
World
Everywhere
Had
Pretty
Other
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I sit a lot with my lyrics - I don't write just to write or put a line in just to have one. Everything has to mean something to me.
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Line
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I'm such a spiritual person and in Sweden it's a bit taboo to be too open with your spirituality; they always think it's a bit weird.
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Sweden
Taboo
Spiritual Person
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It's been so inspiring to have complete creative control and to just have fun creating and collaborating with people I admire greatly.
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Inspiring
Collaborating
Creative Control
Greatly
Have Fun
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I've always been in my own world, even as a young girl. But I fell in love with music because it made me feel something that I can't explain.
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Love Music Always
Love Music World
Explain
Young Girl
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As long as I don't have to compromise my art, that's the most important thing. It doesn't matter if I'm famous or not, it's all about the music.
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Famous
Compromise
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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The entertainment industry can feel so serious. But at the end of the day, it's music and it's supposed to be positive and make people feel good.
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Entertainment Industry
Feel Good
Positive Good Music
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I think being in the world of R&B creates a sense of home, and I think it's important to have that sense of home and spirituality within your music.
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Spirituality
Home Music World
Creates
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We have a lot of indie artists coming from Sweden, not so much soul. The closest thing we had was Robyn when she came out, but it's a different kind of R&B.
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Closest
Sweden
Closest Thing
Different Kind
Indie
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I've learned to really listen to your family and friends. Because they want the best for you. Even if it's not what you want to hear, they're gonna tell you the truth.
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Family And Friends
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I actually got signed when I was 14 with Sony Sweden. Things didn't really work out with that, but I'm glad I had the opportunity to be exposed to the industry at a young age.
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Exposed
Glad
Sony
Sweden
Young Age
Signed
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I grew up looking up a lot to '90s supermodels like Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell. I just thought those women were such cool role models because they had a good body ideal, too.
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Cindy
Models
Role Models
Campbell
Ideal
Naomi
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I think it goes without saying that Logic has a strong and powerful message in his artistic deliveries and has a very beautiful mind. I'm so thrilled to have him be a part of 'Feels.'
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Logic
Thrilled
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No I.D. is actually married to my cousin, and my cousin is my manager. So I met him when she met him many years ago. I was in the studio and he hooked me up with a bunch of producers that he knew.
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Bunch
Cousin
Hooked
Married
Producers
Years Ago
Actually
Manager
Met
Studio
She
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I have both Swedish and Iranian cultures ingrained in me, so that's always there. Plus my love of the U.S. began early on. But growing up in Sweden as one of the few people of color around was not easy by any means.
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Color
Iranian
Plus
Sweden
Love Always Me
Love Me People
Began
Cultures
Few People
Ingrained
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Me and John Mayer met via a mutual connect, we were by the studio and he asked If I could play him my music. When he heard 'Under The Influence,' he asked if he could be a part of the track and of course, we made that happen.
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Heard
If I Could
Influence
Mayer
Mutual
Track
Music Me Influence
Asked
Connect
Course
Music Me Play
Happen
Him
John
Met
Studio
Via
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I feel like nowadays it's almost become a corny thing to say that you want to be a role model or do something good for the world, but the artists I've looked up to - like Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, and Prince - were about something.
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Corny
Houston
Whitney
Good World Feel
Jackson
Nowadays
Role Model
Something Good
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My name is actually Snoh, but there's a rapper with that name already out there, so I was asked to add something to it. I didn't really want to do it at first, but then I thought of Aalegra. It has a connection to music and means 'joy' in Italian.
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Add
Italian
Joy
Rapper
Asked
Connection
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I don't know exactly what genre to put it in, I just know that I grew up listening to a lot of soul music - Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Prince, and Whitney Houston. I was inspired by all these great big voices, and I try to do music that's timeless.
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Genre
Houston
Soul
Timeless
Whitney
Wonder
Michael
Stevie
Exactly
Music Great Soul
Exactly What
Jackson
Soul Music
Stevie Wonder
Voices
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I speak three languages - English is my third language - so I take my time with lyrics. It's almost like having a conversation with somebody. If it's really important, you want to think about what you wanna say with that person, especially if it's for the last time.
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Last Time
Wanna
Languages
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We have a huge immigration population in Sweden, but when I was younger, I grew up in a small town and, at one point, I was the only foreigner in my class. I really felt different, and I thought I looked different. Sometimes it was a good thing, sometimes I felt insecure.
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Immigration
Insecure
Population
Small Town
Sweden
Younger
Foreigner
Good Thing
Looked
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