Ari Lennox Quotes

Ari Lennox

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 26, 1991

My dad would always play Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, and Anita Baker, so I fell in love with them. I would try to make my voice sound like theirs.

Ari Lennox

The world likes trap and EDM unless it's a fire melody.

Ari Lennox

Artists tend to get this thing called demo-itis, and I'm extremely guilty of that.

Ari Lennox

I knew I wanted to sing and maybe I had a chance at it, so I just started recording myself maybe five or six times a week and putting them on YouTube as much as I could with hopes that someone would recognize me.

Ari Lennox

Like, even going to Duke Ellington School of the Arts, like, they slept on me. I think they thought I was talented, but for whatever reason, they didn't want to give me a lot of solos or any type of just love like that. But I don't know. I think that's what encouraged me to grind so hard.

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Howard University - HoChi - they make the best Philly cheesesteak I've ever had - way better than Philly.

Ari Lennox

I use shea butter, olive oil, Shea Moisture - the coconut hibiscus bottle. A mix of that. If I want to do a slick bun, I'll use Eco Style Gel even though it has fragrance in it. Oooh, scary. I'll survive. I keep using it because it works.

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Yeah, I believe in all the wild, witchcraft stuff. I don't like to dabble in that, but I believe they all know something.

Ari Lennox

I know it may come off cheesy, but if somebody's going to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars, even more into you, you want to make sure you can return that; you want to make sure they feel good about their investment.

Ari Lennox

I'd be at these different clubs passing out my business cards and fliers. Then the club would end, the light would come on and all my business cards would be on the floor.

Ari Lennox

My favorite style inspirations are between Rihanna and Diana Ross.

Ari Lennox

New Orleans is one of my favorite cities in the entire world.

Ari Lennox

But yeah, so many people are just not very genuine online. I caught myself looking for my ex, and a lot of these people that I would swipe right on, I'm meeting them in real life and they're just not that guy at all.

Ari Lennox

I'm always going to take an experience and a fire beat and marry it all together with adult melodies. I try to paint, just like Frank Ocean paints with his lyrics. I try in similar ways to paint my life into these songs.

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Could I be a good mom? That's a dream, I pray that I'll be the best mom ever. But I don't know. It's so important to me.

Ari Lennox

I came across this guy named DJ Grumble and I just really liked his beats because they were different. I felt like they spoke to me.

Ari Lennox

I don't have good discipline at all.

Ari Lennox

My life would've been so different if my parents listened to Korn. That would've been fire!

Ari Lennox

Yeah, the first contract I signed, that was the first time I realized, Oh man, never mind, I don't want to do this anymore, but it was too late. I realized it was a bad thing because I wanted to try out for 'American Idol' and all these different things couldn't do that because I was in this contract.

Ari Lennox

I was scared of planes and then also just got this job. It was $10 an hour. To me, that was way more important than meeting J. Cole.

Ari Lennox