Top 60 Estelle Quotes

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This fame is a juggernaut: It slaps you in the face, an

This fame is a juggernaut: It slaps you in the face, and you don’t know what you’re doing. You don’t know who has your back, who is your support system.
Estelle
I wear and have worn scarves my entire life while traveling, working out, and now sometimes while performing, and not just on my head – I wear them around my neck and on my bag.
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Conservatives, they’re like the Republicans to me. They don’t do much. They have this whole hierarchy and boys’ club thing going on. That doesn’t help the regular person.
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‘Something Good’ is a feel-good song. A reminder that you’re dope and have something wonderful to offer life and yourself and the world.
Estelle
Success is based on music, not where you’re from.
Estelle
I hate that if you do one style of music or become really well known for that one song, that everything that comes after has to fit that mold.
Estelle
Luke James has this mystique about him that’s not something you can explain; you can only experience it. He’s got a whole D’Angelo feel to him as well.
Estelle
Law became boring, but like every job I’ve done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.
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I’m so sick of hearing that U.K. hip hop doesn’t get credit and success when I’m working to get it – for me and for others, too.
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I try not to judge because I’ve been judged a heck of a lot, and it don’t feel nice.
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I grew up in a house full of music. Everything from reggae and afro-beat to Zook and pop.
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I am a black British female artist, so I must be like Ms Dynamite, I must be like Shystie, I must be like Jamelia, but we’re all different.
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People are getting ready for music that makes them feel happy again rather than being depressed at the way the world is going right now.
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I can get a call at 2 A.M., and the person on the other end is like: ‘Sorry, did I wake you?’ and I’m like: ‘No, I’m wide awake.’
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I’ve still gotta come across as happy when inside I feel crap!
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Parents, raise your kids. Young men and women, raise your kids.
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The Grammy snuck up on me. I was on tour. It just hit me. I skipped down the street in Vienna. I kept saying, ‘I won. I won.’
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I have my family; I’m never alone.
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A lot of my girlfriends are always telling me they’re really strong independent women, but they’ve got their boy on the side, and they only go over when he calls.
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I’ve fully embraced who I am. I stopped fighting with people and just come to realize, ‘This is me. This is all of me.’
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The only thing I don’t have is hips.
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Americans have their issues with skin colour, even within the black community, with light and dark skin; it’s crazy – but no one’s oblivious to it.
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I have to live authentically at all times. And that’s part of what makes me an artist. I’m not scared to do that.
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I wear what I feel and what makes me feel happy.
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You can be sexy, but respect yourself and make sure you get that respect.
Estelle
I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers.
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I always say, ‘There’s a difference between cooked food and McDonald’s.’ Your mom’s homemade dinner – you enjoy this more than you enjoy the fast food that comes along and goes, and I strive to make homemade dinner every time I put out an album.
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Garage music came up when people weren’t paying attention.
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I will test a guy to within an inch of his sanity because I’ve been through too much drama. He has to be 100%.
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I just have a way about me where people know that they don’t tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.
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I believe in illusion – I don’t believe in magic.
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I'm so, so full of joy that America elected Obama.

I’m so, so full of joy that America elected Obama.
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I’m not slimming down for anyone and losing my figure.
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A lot of big whoever producers, they come with a song and they say, ‘Sing this,’ and I’m not that girl.
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I can sit in my room and write a song that I think might be a hit. I can sort of make myself do that, and then I’ll play it to a friend, and they’ll say, ‘Oh, that’s nice.’ But when something happens to me, and I sit down and write a song to get rid of my emotions, they’ll turn around and say, ‘Wow, that’s great.’
Estelle
I want a TV series, I’m gonna do some acting jobs, I’m gonna do some Broadway jobs, everything!
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If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it!
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You have to have courage to look back and be honest about your own drama.
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I always thought that if record companies didn’t understand me, fine – I’d go and do it by myself.
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My mind is always going.
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I’m never scared to ask a question or state the obvious, y’know.
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Why should you stay in one place and one country if they’re not offering you a job? It doesn’t make sense!
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I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it.
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I’m so, so full of joy that America elected Obama. He didn’t win because he was black – people voted for him because he had a plan and because he talked sense and because you believed him.
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The Americans love me because I’m so completely unwilling to change my whole Britishness.
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Most of my thinking is done at night.
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I’m the female Jay-Z. I never compared myself to other women artists. I compared myself with the best, and the best is Jay-Z.
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My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.
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I feel like I’m beautiful, and every woman should feel like that.
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I’d really started hating music. I’d started hating all the songs, hating being in the industry, hating doing the shows. So I had to learn to love music again if I wanted to continue doing this.
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Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian, gives me a different view. I’m coming at soul from my own place.
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I come from a family of well-endowed booty women.
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With the first album, I wanted to do so many different things, and I was fighting with myself to try and see if I was worthy enough to do it.
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You know, sometimes you fall in love and you get treated badly, sometimes you get treated well.
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I couldn’t just hand in any old rubbish – I can’t go on tour and sing something for three years if I don’t believe in it.
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I never do a show where the people just sit there and look at me. They always sing along. It’s going to be a fun time.
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My mum is West African, from Senegal; my dad is from Grenada. There was a huge controversy about them getting together.
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I feel like it’s not a bad average for every album I’ve got in the United States to be nominated for something off the album.
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You can’t please everybody. I give up. I’m not trying to. I don’t care. Leave me alone with that.
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I’m used to traveling. I’m used to being in different areas of the world. Home is where my suitcase lands.
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