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Today, computers help us making the music. Its really a tool.
Yael Naim / Singer-Songwriter
Helping
Today
Tools
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Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
Yael Naim / Singer-Songwriter
Computers
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I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.
Yael Naim / Singer-Songwriter
Ends
Extremes
Song
Extreme
Covers
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In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
Yael Naim / Singer-Songwriter
Quality
Attention
Details
France
Littles
Quality Of Life
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Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.
Yael Naim / Singer-Songwriter
People
Song
Way
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
Yael Naim / Singer-Songwriter
Emotion
Hebrew
Looks
Pure
Sophistication
Writing
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I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.
Yael Naim / Singer-Songwriter
New Life
Real
Real Life
Soul
Starting
Life Soul I Am
Life I Am New
Figured
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Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.
Yael Naim / Singer-Songwriter
France
Complex
Met
Mix
Musicians
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As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.
Yael Naim / Singer-Songwriter
Cook
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I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.
Yael Naim / Singer-Songwriter
Hebrew
Israel
Israeli
Judaism
Me People Connection
Connection
Hide
Interview
Record
No Connection
Signed
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My first album was full of ideas and attempts to go in all kinds of directions. I was young. I loved making music, but I didn't have a clear path. I also lacked in confidence.
Yael Naim / Singer-Songwriter
Attempts
Directions
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Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
Yael Naim / Singer-Songwriter
Emotion
Hebrew
Pure
Sophistication
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
Yael Naim / Singer-Songwriter
Imagination
Limits
Poetic
Music Where Me
English
French
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I remember there was a little organ which I'd tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was so obvious, one day I got home from school and there was a real piano in my bedroom.
Yael Naim / Singer-Songwriter
Home
Real
School
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I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.
Yael Naim / Singer-Songwriter
Famous
Pretentious
Years Ago
Opposite
Fast
Perfectly
Planned
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My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.
Yael Naim / Singer-Songwriter
Holiday
Indian
Indian Music
Jazz
Nina
Music Me Jazz
Blues
Drake
Classical
Include
Influences
Joni Mitchell
Mitchell
Nick
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Usually when a song comes to me, I don't ask a lot of questions; I hear something, and I just let it out in song. It's like making a salad. Everything I hear, and everything I am, I mix together in a different way in each song.
Yael Naim / Singer-Songwriter
Salad
Questions
Together I Am Me
Different Way
Mix
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When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether.
Yael Naim / Singer-Songwriter
Confused
Plant
Roots
Somewhere Else
Ties
Altogether
Dissolve
Tourist
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