Top 45 Bibi Bourelly Quotes

Before I was working professionally, I would do YouTube covers. But as a creative person, it was really hard for me when I wasn’t releasing my own music. That felt unnatural to me.

I have faith in the people. Honesty will prosper.

I want my brand and Bibi Bourelly to represent honesty.

I just want to unify people. A crowd full of people singing one song… that doesn’t derive from anything dishonest… It’s someone’s truth.

I’m the type of person who really wants to exist and live honestly, to just say what I have to say and be who I am and do what I want.

Working with Rihanna has changed my life.

My dad raised me on everything from his music to Stevie Wonder to A Tribe Called Quest. I learned the ‘Midnight Marauders’ album in and out.

Music is the way I talk to people.

What people think of you doesn’t matter, because I believe anything’s possible. No one’s going to convince me I’m not capable of living up to my full potential, because I’ve obsessed over that idea. The universe wants me to be great for me.

Daring is doing. Daring is asking something outrageous despite your chances of failure and rejection. Daring is going out on a limb by believing in something that no one else understands, and if all fails, daring is trying again.

The music industry is hard work, especially for women. A lot of people pit us against each other, comparing two body types or two women that are completely different. It’s a lot of pressure.

My talent before singing is being able to interpret and understand my emotions. I’ve felt pain and felt it intensely, so every time I sing, I revisit it.

My dad is Jean-Paul Bourelly, a really prestige guitar player in Europe, and he toured with Miles Davis. I was always surrounded by the most prestige kind of musicians from Senegal, Trinidad, Poland, Nigeria, and all around the world.

There’s nothing wrong with writing for other artists, but that’s just not what my purpose is.

I would never say I ‘play’ guitar. But yeah, I play to write. Same with piano.

I can still feel unsure in myself, and l’m still insecure about certain things, but my desire to be happy and my desire to be free is very strong.

School, for me, was a really, genuinely hard thing. It was hard because l am an artist. You can’t send an artist to a place where we learn at a mad slow pace sitting in a class.

I love making music. I love that it’s unstructured, that I get to go perform and play in front of people, to meet new people. I love to do the thing I’m best at every day.

I just am really bad at making new friends – especially in the music industry, because they’re not really real friends; they’re just music industry friends.

A writer is an artist. They’re creating things out of thin air.

I always do what makes me happy – it doesn’t make sense to live life unhappily.

I’m not a machine that just comes up with records and can give them away easily.

Sometimes I hate writing songs. Because it hurts sometimes. I’m very emotional.

I got to meet Kanye West because we were shopping my artist deal, and I was interested in his label. When I met him, I played him all the records I had. He introduced me to Rihanna, and she recorded and cut some of those records.

Think about how many dreams die with people – if you don’t believe in yourself, whatever you’re doing is for no reason.

I was born in Berlin, and when I was 6, my mom passed. When I was 9, I moved to near Washington, D.C., where I lived with my aunt and uncle. And then at 11, I moved back to Berlin. And then at 16, I got in trouble in school and moved back to the Washington area.

At the end of the day, l just want to be myself. I don’t set out to be like anyone else.

I remember the first time I ever wrote down a song was when I was 6. I was at my friend Emma’s house, and we wrote a song called ‘Girls’ Rules.’

A lot of things change when one is granted success: random people pop up, and a lot of the adjustments are rough. My way of coping with them is through focusing on the things that I have accomplished and the things that are yet to come.

I’m just trying to give the world something pure for a change. We’ll see what happens.

I started writing songs before I could talk – at three or four. It was in me, and I had to get it out. It was all freestyle, which is how I write anyway. I don’t write the words down; I scat and come up with the melody, then the lyrics.

As far as songwriting, I’m not sure if they wrote all of their own stuff, but I love the Dixie Chicks.

I believe that I exist for the people. I’m just here to try to make a difference, and hopefully, the people listen and trust me enough to contribute.

I’m just tryna make real music. I don’t want to force the people to follow me.

The way I write music for other artists is the same way I write music for myself. I’ll pick up the guitar, and I’ll write music, and if I don’t use it, I have, like, 500 other songs. If I don’t use it, I give it away.

To the outside world, I was pretty bad at everything my whole life. People didn’t credit me for my musicianship.

Me going to college was not an option.

I was never necessarily conscious of my failures when I attempted something and it didn’t work out, because I feel like I’m so in tune with my purpose I never necessarily acknowledge that.

I don’t want to, in the last three minutes of my life, know that I lived it for somebody else.

I think that I can’t help but put my personal pain in my music because there’s a lot of it. That’s my therapy.

All of my songwriting success happened within a four month time span, and my record label deal happened within the next three months.

We cannot afford to have lies in music.

If I talk to a new guy, it’s because the old guy bores me, and I already wrote a bunch of songs about him.

I fell in love with singing, and through singing, I learned how to write songs. Anything you’re consistent with and that you do all the time, you’re gonna reap benefits off it at one point. You’re not gonna get worse!

A lot of senior artists say that they support women, but they have a machine of people behind them telling them to be that way. l don’t think it’s always true and genuine.