Top 100 Gabriella Wilson Quotes

I wanted people to just accept the music for what it is without any judgement and being anonymous was the best way to do that.

Sometimes I’ll just go on my piano and just start playing what I’m feeling. It all depends on what I’m feeling at the moment.

I was like, ‘Wow, Tommy Hilfiger wants to work with little old me.’ All the dots connected, we had a meeting, and everything started to come together.

Good things take time.

I don’t like to rush things.

I learned anything can go wrong on tour, still, you have to put on the best show you can.

It’s scary and uncomfortable releasing music that is close to you.

I plan on donating a bunch of guitars to different schools around the country. There could be a new Slash out there, there could be a new Lenny Kravitz.

Throughout my teenage years or whatever, I’ve been so uncomfortable, or I’ve made mistakes and I’ve felt like I’m the only one who has done that.

I never really thought of myself as someone who was gifted.

The fact that I can travel around the world doing what I love is such a blessing. I’ve learned that traveling is such an important thing; there’s so many beautiful things out there and we get worried about such little things.

The studio is the place for me to really confront my feelings and get it all out. I love being in that space and creating, doing what I love, making art.

All of my music is based off my life experiences.

Whether you know who I am or not, you don’t really know who I am.

I like to pair clothes or accessories that wouldn’t usually go together.

When you’re growing up as a young woman, you develop all of these insecurities, and then there’s boys and all of that stuff on top of that.

I don’t know if I have a favorite part of being an artist. I do love being onstage and performing with my band. I also love rehearsing with them and creating the show, that’s always a fun part. But there’s also nothing like being in the studio and being able to get back to myself and get back to my feelings.

People are gonna listen to the music whether or not I reveal myself.

I think most women, we have intuition. We always know what we always want to find out. We always want to be wrong, and we hate when we’re right at the end of the day. People say we love to be right. That’s not true. We don’t like to be right, because usually we know when it’s the truth.

I would not be able to sleep at night and I would practice my Grammys speech. That was definitely me.

I’m a perfectionist and I want everything to be amazing every single show.

I never really thought of myself as someone who was gifted.

I think people often tend to listen to music with their eyes and not their ears, and I just wanted my work to shine, and to be able to convey my message without imagery taking away from that.

People have always tried to imitate, but at the end of the day, no one can do me better than I can do me, you know?

Sometimes it’s all about hype, and I didn’t want hype.

As a person, I’m just trying to be better than I was yesterday and continue to elevate.

I’m all about comfort.

I want women to really feel how honest and vulnerable I am and to understand that they are not alone and that these are all human emotions.

I always say that my music is my diary. It’s very personal to me.

All the gossip – I’m not about that at all. The drama.

I’ve been singing love songs since I was a toddler, I was singing Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and even Alicia Keys song, that helped my writing so much.

Seeing people Tweet my lyrics and really feeling for me, feeling what I’m feeling… in one of my lyrics I sing about ‘the watch I just got for you,’ and some girl was like, ‘Yes! I bought him a watch!’ I can be happy because these women feel me.

We live in an era of social media. We care more about looks, popularity and followers than about real music. And I wanted to get away from that.

I plan on donating a bunch of guitars to different schools around the country. There could be a new Slash out there, there could be a new Lenny Kravitz.

Black culture, to me, is so important and I identify with young black women.

I’m huge on the dynamic of my show and the experience, not just performing songs. It’s important to me to make sure that people experience every song, and feel like I’m singing directly to them. Your eyes never want to leave the stage because there’s always something happening.

Some people, they make these assumptions before they even listen to the music.

Whether you know who I am or not, you don’t really know who I am.

You can’t avoid heartbreak, you can’t avoid a lot of things. You have to go through them in order to become the person you’re going to be.

It’s really powerful to have a strong base that genuinely loves the music and plays it over and over again.

My dad and I would perform around the Bay Area where I’m from in California together, and I also did talent shows growing up, I loved it.

I wanted it to be about the music, so maintaining that is kind of difficult. But it’s something I found made the most sense because it’s about the music at the end of the day. That’s what I’m most passionate about.

Sometimes it’s all about hype, and I didn’t want hype.

It’s a great thing to hear people putting me up to this standard and putting me on this pedestal and expecting greatness from me, but at the end of the day, I’m just trying to be a better me as an artist musically.

It’s not a popularity contest to me. It should always be about the music.

I’m so thankful that at this point, even if you see my face or know who I am, it doesn’t matter, because you already love the music.

I’m a sneaker girl, but I like to make comfort fancy.

Living my truth was very hard – I felt vulnerable.

Seeing people Tweet my lyrics and really feeling for me, feeling what I’m feeling… in one of my lyrics I sing about ‘the watch I just got for you,’ and some girl was like, ‘Yes! I bought him a watch!’ I can be happy because these women feel me.

I remember being really, really young and watching Prince and Michael Jackson concert DVDs. One of my favorites is Prince’s ‘Rave Un2 The Year 2000.’

Before anybody knew who I was, I was just working on what I love and having fun with it, and I’m sticking with that – because, ultimately, that’s what people want to see.

I go to my mom’s house and she’ll make me do the dishes or clean up.

We use social media as a platform to speak on issues that we feel passionate about and I see people debating on Twitter all the time about social injustices.

My dad had a cover band. They would rehearse in my living room while my mom was pregnant.

Giving, making an impact on people is something I definitely got from my mother.

I write about other people’s experiences from time to time.

I will say about my fans, from day one they’ve been listening and are still listening to my projects on repeat.

I was a kid. I would go home and play instruments, and I would be at school on the playground the next day.

I’ve been singing love songs since I was a toddler, I was singing Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and even Alicia Keys song, that helped my writing so much.

I was almost afraid to speak on the things I’ve dealt with as a woman.

A lot of women need to know that they don’t have to conform, they don’t have to take no for an answer.

Music is just in me and I didn’t even realize it early on that I was going to do music.

I want women to really feel how honest and vulnerable I am and to understand that they are not alone and that these are all human emotions.

My dad and I used to play Prince, Lauryn Hill, Stevie Wonder, The Parliaments, and a lot of older funk bands while cooking breakfast in the morning.

People at school knew I sang and that this was what I was gonna do, but I was pretty private and low-key.

I would not be able to sleep at night and I would practice my Grammys speech. That was definitely me.

I think most women, we have intuition. We always know what we always want to find out. We always want to be wrong, and we hate when we’re right at the end of the day. People say we love to be right. That’s not true. We don’t like to be right, because usually we know when it’s the truth.

To live your truth and sing your truth, that defines success.

Sometimes I’ll just go on my piano and just start playing what I’m feeling. It all depends on what I’m feeling at the moment.

Music was all around me from the time I came into the world.

It’s one thing to be able to sing well, but another to be an artist and find your own voice within music. And that’s what the goal was for me in my teenage years. I had to find myself.

I really just wanted it to be about the music, and get away from, ‘Who is she with?’ and ‘What is she wearing?’

I really wish I could have collaborated with Prince before he passed.

A lot of women need to know that they don’t have to conform, they don’t have to take no for an answer.

I’ve been writing since I was five years old. I used to write poetry, and I loved to rhyme.

I have to keep doing me. I have to not look at what everybody else is doing, or what everybody else thinks should be happening right now.

Good things take time.

I’m half-Filipino and Filipinos love karaoke.

I’m just going to keep doing what I’ve been doing.

I’d rather have quality over quantity. It’s about perfecting each song and making sure it’s what you want to do. And then even with what I share it’s all very strategic.

After I graduated from high school, I was like, let’s see what happens. I took the time to develop my artistry and my songs, and tried to figure out who I am and what my message is.

It’s a great thing to hear people putting me up to this standard and putting me on this pedestal and expecting greatness from me, but at the end of the day, I’m just trying to be a better me as an artist musically.

Some people, they make these assumptions before they even listen to the music.

Being anonymous, I thought I’d just release the music and see what happens organically.

Through the music, you can pretty much tell what I’ve been through and what I’ve accepted. And releasing it has made me realize I’m not alone in it, because of the reactions I’ve been getting.

My dad had a cover band. They would rehearse in my living room while my mom was pregnant.

People always make me uncomfortable when they ask me: ‘Who’s this song about?’ I feel like I let you read my diary and now we have to have a conversation about it! I already let you read it, let’s just leave it at that.

Before anybody knew who I was, I was just working on what I love and having fun with it, and I’m sticking with that – because, ultimately, that’s what people want to see.

I guess 16, 17, 18, that whole period was a dark time for me. I guess it was a hormonal thing, going through all those changes as a young woman, learning who you are and being comfortable with yourself, and also, which goes along with that, boys. It was definitely an unhappy, ‘Who am I?’ period. ‘Who am I gonna be?’

I’m a perfectionist and I want everything to be amazing every single show.

Some people want the attention, some people want the spotlight, and that just wasn’t it for me.

I was like, ‘Wow, Tommy Hilfiger wants to work with little old me.’ All the dots connected, we had a meeting, and everything started to come together.

I want people to feel the emotion, try to relate to the way that I look or want to be like me in the way that I’m living or whatever.

I’ve learned a lot about myself through my music and the way people perceive it, and the goal is for the success not to change me.

Living my truth was very hard – I felt vulnerable.

I’m always thinking about Prince when I make my music and how genre-less he was and just how versatile and amazing he was on the stage. I’m so inspired by him.

Giving, making an impact on people is something I definitely got from my mother.

I will say about my fans, from day one they’ve been listening and are still listening to my projects on repeat.

I was almost afraid to speak on the things I’ve dealt with as a woman.

I’m so emotional when it comes to even the smallest thing.