Andra Day Quotes

Andra Day

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 30, 1984

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.

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I love the Black Keys because I love that guy's voice.

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I'm not going to put myself in a box.

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

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I was a dancer for about 20 years. It didn't really help me transition into music.

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I get people today who say, 'I first heard about you through the Stevie Wonder commercial.' The power of advertising in that way is incredible.

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

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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.

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Throughout my life, I've had consistent DNA.

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I loved Lauryn Hill; I loved the Fugees.

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

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What I wear onstage is so stylized and bold.

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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.

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It was so surreal, having my parents hear the President and First Lady saying to me, 'Good to see you again! We're so proud of you. We watched you on the Grammys and were like, 'That's our girl!'

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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.'

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Listening to the stories told in jazz music and how those artists expressed their truths about the times and what they were dealing with is what struck me the most.

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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.

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I gleaned different style ideas over the years. In Southern California, there is a big rockabilly sub-culture. So when I would go to car shows, I would see women dressed like this. I had a teacher in high school that always had her Bette Paige bangs.

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I decided to see how my voice sounds on different type of records. So I did Eminem and the Biggie, Florence and the Machine, and Muse covers. A couple of them just came from some jam sessions between me and my sister in her bedroom at my father's house in San Diego.

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I knew that I could sing when I was young. I would listen to a lot of jazz; I'm a big jazz fan. When I first got to high school and studied musical theater, I could sing. But I added certain things to my voice, and I realized after graduating high school that this is the kind of voice I had. It's not very nimble, but it's heavy.

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