Top 45 Andra Day Quotes

I love different eclectic bands. I love Phoenix and Kimber.

My band and I are even closer. They’ve grown with me over four years, so we’re closer and closer and closer.

I like very, very dramatic eyeliner: I take it all the way out to my eyebrows.

I pray, read the word, and then creative stuff happens here. Problem-solving and all of that comes into that space. So ‘Da Box’ actually represents my sanctuary and that time. I might look trapped in a box, but I’m actually more free in that box than anyone on the outside looking in or in any other space in my life.

I always loved music and was drawn to it and affected by it. But it wasn’t until I got to San Diego that I started exploring music more.

The album ‘Cheers to the Fall’ is really kind of me breaking out and being like, ‘Listen, I don’t care about criticism, and I don’t care about possibility of failure. I’m going to do it. And if I do fail, well then, here’s to it.’

No matter how dark or precarious it may seem, continue to pursue your truth.

I think fashion and artistry go hand in hand.

The elementary school I went to, Valencia Park, was focused on the arts.

Musically, I try not to box things in. I try to just play around this spectrum of influences: soul, jazz, and hip-hop.

I danced for a while, and I knew I could sing, so I just began singing in a praise band at church and doing musical theater and jazz vocal performance in school. One didn’t really lead to another; I was just always interested in the performance arts.

At my shows, I like everyone to have a good time… but, I like for us to be real because there’s freedom in that.

I try to not go, ‘I’m writing a pop song.’ Music is inherently genre-bending.

For the record, I am not Stevie Wonder’s wife, and no, I am not his child.

When you walk in the front of the White House, the pictures on the walls, they change out pretty frequently. They’re all very cool and historical, with pictures from the current term and past terms.

As a singer, if I’m in a room that is too cold, I kind of freak out, so I actually like the humidity, and I love the heat.

I search for items that have history, like vintage finds – I love fur kitten-heel house slippers from the 1950s – and pieces from fashion houses that have been around for a long time, like Chanel and Dior.

I’m a huge Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu fan, so working with those two in any capacity would be a dream.

I play with doing a forehead bun a lot, just a bantu knot right in front of the forehead and keep it in with a clip. And I like doing real pinup styles but based on my natural hair.

I feel like fear is a very real thing, a very ubiquitous thing, and it can be very subtle.

When I heard Billie Holiday’s voice, Nina Simone’s and Ella Fitzgerald’s – there was something about their voices to me that was such a different texture than what I was used to listening to at the time. Hearing those jazz voices were so different, and I think I just gravitated toward it.

My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there’s no gloss on what they do.

I’m not going to put myself in a box.

I always knew I wanted to be a performance artist.

I try to avoid hairspray, gel, and heat as much as I can – I will use a pomade or a very heavy conditioner to style it the way that I want it.

My family wasn’t in the music business, but they loved music.

Once you see how powerful music is and how it can affect people, then you want to use it to impact the world.

A pompadour is actually pretty easy for me; it takes me about five minutes.

I want people to know my truth. Unconditional love of God and each other.

I’m very obsessed with pop culture of the mid-century and it goes hand-in-hand with the music that I studied in school.

My sister and I – she’s a musician – we jam all the time. We always play around for giggles with stuff that seem unconventional or stuff that seems funny. A lot of the stuff sometimes is just a response from jam sessions in her room, so she’ll be on the guitar or the keyboard, and we’ll just start singing and doing stuff.

I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.

My style was established in the Forties and Fifties, then got dragged through the decades and picked up a couple more things on the way.

My father loved music. He loved Motown and R&B, and my mother loved Journey and Fleetwood Mac, so they were always listening to it and playing it.

I give credit to my team. I have dedicated people from my label, my fans, and people at these companies that believe in me.

I really like jazz and soul, but I also love so many other types of music, and I didn’t want to be afraid to blend and experiment.

Whichever chord progressions move me, whether it’s rock, jazz, doo-wop or soul, I’m going to put it together and not be worried about whether people can put it in a lane or not.

I always felt more comfortable with a full face of makeup.

Tony Bennett is an iconic jazz legend.

I went to a performing arts school, and we studied musical theater, jazz vocal performance, and they kind of start you out on those things because they feel like it is a good foundation, and it was.

I’m grateful and enjoying the ride.

I didn’t want to box it in or say this show caters to this type of person… I think the tide of music is changing. We don’t have to worry about rules. We should just do what feels good.

I’m excited for the audiences to hear the title track, ‘Cheers to the Fall,’ plus ‘Red Flags’ and ‘Rearview.’

My prayers are being answered for my career. These are prayers I’ve been praying for as a kid.

I was a dancer for long time. And you always hear that ballet is the core of dance, and that – once you have that down – you can do everything else. For me, jazz is like that for music.