Latest Emeli Sande Quotes from Interviews

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• I think people don't realize how many hours of practice goes into becoming a musician and getting better.

  Emeli Sande

  Thinking, People, Get Better

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't think there are any songs that I've written in the past that I now disagree. It's kind of like tattoos; I would never regret a tattoo, because it was how I felt at that time in my life. I don't think I've ever said anything that I would take back. So far, so good! I would probably change the music, or change how I sing it, maybe do it a little bit cooler, or a bit more grown-up. But I don't think that there are any lyrics that I regret.

  Emeli Sande

  Tattoo, Song, Regret

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think on the first album, my aim was to write a good song and have a good melody, and I wanted lyrics that would connect with as many people as possible. On the second album, I took a lot more of a personal approach. I wasn't trying to make conventional, structured songs; I was really trying to get a lot of emotion and my own personal journey throughout it. I just focused more on being honest than getting the normal song structure down.

  Emeli Sande

  Song, Writing, Journey

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Melody is the first thing that comes to me when I'm songwriting. I learned piano classically first, and then I went into soul, and so melody has always been the first. It's so important.

  Emeli Sande

  Piano, Soul, Important

  Source: www.pbs.org

• People that come to my shows are definitely people that feel outsiders. They feel like I don't feel sexy, I don't feel like - I can't go out every night on Friday and I can't connect to that, and I feel so much pressure to do that.

  Emeli Sande

  Friday, Sexy, Night

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Sometimes you feel like a very small drop in this huge ocean.

  Emeli Sande

  Ocean, Sometimes, Feels

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I don't know if I was as ambitious as to change the world, but I do feel like - the reason why I called the album "Our Version of Events" was that I feel a lot of people are not represented in pop music and popular culture.

  Emeli Sande

  People, Ambitious, Events

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I wanted to find a way to speak for people. It was important for me, because so many people spoke for me when I was a kid and made me feel less invisible, and I wanted kids or whoever is listening to my music not to feel so voiceless.

  Emeli Sande

  Kids, People, Listening

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I was inspired by people like Joni Mitchell and Carole King and Stevie and "Storytellers." People that could really change the world with their lyric, no matter who sung the song, they had still been the source of that message. So that's what I really aim for.

  Emeli Sande

  Song, Kings, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Songwriting is my main thing. I know that I'll do that for the rest of my life.

  Emeli Sande

  Songwriting, Knows

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I wasn't intentionally trying to create my own path or be original, it was just I needed to say certain things and I needed to express myself, and that's how it came out.

  Emeli Sande

  Trying, Path, Certain

  Source: www.pbs.org

• If I was singing like somebody else, then it was almost like I was expressing myself like somebody else. So it was always a very original thing for me. It's my voice, it's my diary, it's the way I connect with people.

  Emeli Sande

  Voice, People, Singing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with people was when I was singing or on stage.

  Emeli Sande

  Voice, People, Singing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.

  Emeli Sande

  Writing, Kids, Important

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music.

  Emeli Sande

  School, Weekend, Lunch Break

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I couldn't help but feel very different from everybody, so I think that's why I found such a big world in music, and that's why I kind of - I was an introvert as a kid, but I loved the piano, and that's where I felt at home.

  Emeli Sande

  Home, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org