Top 44 Dawn Richard Quotes

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When you see what you really are, good or bad, there is

When you see what you really are, good or bad, there is a fearlessness to understanding your purpose.
Dawn Richard
I would describe my personal style as putting Twiggy and Yoko Ono together. It is hobo with no rules.
Dawn Richard
I’d only do a deal with a label if it allowed me to still be indie and have that indie mentality. I have to have creative control.
Dawn Richard
I had no idea that what I thought was my low wasn’t really my low. That’s what a lot of people think – then life reminds them, ‘No, there’s lower.’
Dawn Richard
R&B needs to see a new light. It doesn’t have to be pigeonholed.
Dawn Richard
It doesn’t bother me when I’m labeled, but it’s so… limiting. It’s so boxy.
Dawn Richard
I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you’re an artist.
Dawn Richard
When I was 4, I had a schedule. I was playing softball. My brother was playing football. My parents were teachers, and they’d owned businesses. We like to work hard. Work and then books. Books and then work. We just knew that we had to excel. It sounds militant, but trust me, it was fun.
Dawn Richard
Anything that creates fear, I want to conquer it.
Dawn Richard
I did write more mainstream stuff with DK. But you could always tell the records that I wrote in contrast with everybody else’s because the format was a bit different. The harmonies were used in a different type of way. Way more metaphors in the mix.
Dawn Richard
There’s definitely that tribal Africana thing going on in my sound. It’s that marching band, second-line music, that Creole-influence in the kick, and the snare that drives everything for me. I think it’s really what’s separated my sound from a lot of the R&B and pop music out there.
Dawn Richard
It’s a lot of work being an indie artist, but it’s worth it.
Dawn Richard
I write for myself. It’s therapy.
Dawn Richard
When my dad went to college to get his master’s from Loyola, he was playing Debussy and Chopin and Beethoven. But he played all that New Orleans stuff, too. I would go with my dad to gigs, pick up the piano and the speakers, and I would be like his roadie.
Dawn Richard
I don’t wish homelessness on anyone, especially when you come from where your parents work hard.
Dawn Richard
‘Goldenheart’ is like a modern-day Joan of Arc. Think of it like medieval times-cum-2045 or Lancelot and Guinevere in 3025. It’s a new version of these battles – age-old stories for the now.
Dawn Richard
I had always had an affinity for series in literature, and I thought it would be really cool to incorporate what I loved about books into the story of music, to pile it together.
Dawn Richard
Fashion is my lover on the side, but I am married to music.
Dawn Richard
I’m big on showing people versatility. I’m constantly trying to push myself to break barriers and the idea that we have to stay in one lane.
Dawn Richard
I always treat shows as though they could belong on either platform. I always design it for the bigger stage, but I love it on the smaller stage.
Dawn Richard
I do not have a history in set design. I have a history in art. I draw. But I learned set design when I couldn’t afford to have a team and I didn’t want to look like I was indie. I wanted to give fans the visual.
Dawn Richard
Everyone who knows Puff knows Puff rolls with himself. His hustle is money. That’s what he does.
Dawn Richard
Songwriting was my own journey. I never fit in with structure in songwriting.
Dawn Richard
I’m not mainstream. You gotta find me.
Dawn Richard
My music speaks of warriors. It speaks of women being kings and this sense of pride of being more, even though you have less.
Dawn Richard
I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas.
Dawn Richard
It’s always interesting when you’re doing things yourself – getting the lighting, getting everybody together. It’s exciting.
Dawn Richard
I couldn’t do a record without knowing I’ll translate it into something visual.
Dawn Richard
I’ve grown so much in the music industry. From ‘GoldenHeart,’ it was just about me and the music and me in this dream. With ‘BlackHeart,’ its more about me and who I am and what role I play in my own life and in the business.
Dawn Richard
‘Armor On’ explains why I needed armor in the first place. Sonically, you’ll hear this battle of, ‘I love you, no I don’t. I love you, I hate you.’ That’s what you’ll feel. You see the story kind of fight against itself.
Dawn Richard
There is a thing about women that needs to be understood. We don’t sit well with being put in a certain place.
Dawn Richard
The problem with Danity Kane is everybody wanted to pla

The problem with Danity Kane is everybody wanted to play everybody’s role, and when you’re in a group like that, that can’t survive.
Dawn Richard
‘Blackheart’ was the moment for me to really open up and let people into the world that is me.
Dawn Richard
A lot of ‘Blackheart’ was me, literally in a dark room, confessing my sins; Poe was the influence for that album. But that melancholy has a hopefulness – in every Poe story, there is always a moral at the end.
Dawn Richard
I really got back to my New Orleans roots – my grandfather played with Fats Domino. We had to leave after Katrina, but I feel like, spiritually, I’m back there.
Dawn Richard
I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and song came from that.
Dawn Richard
There’s always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies. But I never saw it that way. I always thought music was open to all things.
Dawn Richard
I’m okay with being the oddball.
Dawn Richard
When I look half naked on stage, it’s not because I’m trying to be sexy but because I am dancing and want to be mobile enough to move.
Dawn Richard
People want to peg you as alternative R&B when they hear soul or see the color of your skin. It’s comfortable when people see artists of color or artists that come from a different country to put that brand on us. It’s just not as linear as that.
Dawn Richard
I’m not a very open person.
Dawn Richard
I think, my entire life, I was a bit different. And I didn’t think I was different; I just kinda always stuck out.
Dawn Richard
I got in the audition line called ‘Making the Band’ because I wanted to be in a band. If I didn’t, I would have done ‘American Idol.’
Dawn Richard
Hair pieces and head dresses have always been something that’s been part of my culture.
Dawn Richard