Lisa Stansfield Quotes

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Lisa Stansfield

Profession : Musician

Birth : April 11, 1966

People compliment me and if I ignore them, it doesn't mean I'm rude. It just means I'm embarrassed.

Lisa Stansfield

Working class people vote Tory because they think it makes them look a bit posh.

Lisa Stansfield

You never know what to expect in life, so just roll with the punches and make the most of it. Because you've only got one life and you may as well have a really lovely time. And try not to hurt anybody on the way.

Lisa Stansfield

I like to keep everyone happy. I feel like it's my responsibility to do that.

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People get trapped sometimes and they don't feel they have a voice. And if you can in some way help someone by writing a song, it's really lovely.

Lisa Stansfield

To me to singing is like a freedom. It's a very therapeutic thing. It's incredible. I can just lose myself. It's sort of like meditation.

Lisa Stansfield

I was fortunate enough to meet Aretha Franklin but I was so overwhelmed that I just burst out crying.

Lisa Stansfield

I was really skinny and I had greasy hair and I was knock-kneed. There's something still in me that's like that, and I catch myself, you know when you're walking or something, and you think, 'Oh no, you're still that drippy person.'

Lisa Stansfield

That's a part of human nature that men and women, women and women, whatever your sexuality, you flirt with each other and it's completely harmless and it doesn't really mean it crosses a line... You can tell where it is.

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I'm a bit of a loose cannon, but it keeps everyone on their toes!

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The Manchester music scene was very male dominated.

Lisa Stansfield

I did work incredibly hard but I think there's a certain element of luck.

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I think women were just accepted more as songwriters when they sat on a stool with a guitar and had scruffy hair. It was quite insulting really, because it was like saying that if you're pretty and slim and glamorous there's no way anything could be going on between your ears, you just like doing your makeup.

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I like to tinkle at my piano when I'm working out a new song - I just put my fingers down and see what comes out.

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There was a period in music that didn't suit what I did. I didn't fit in.

Lisa Stansfield

When I make an album I love to spend a long time making it and put my heart and soul into it.

Lisa Stansfield

You know that something is good but you never really know how good. You always underestimate how much of an impact something is going to have.

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The fame thing made me run - it got out of hand and I needed to go away.

Lisa Stansfield

Some women can go 12 cycles of IVF and not have a problem. They love babies. They want to have a baby - it's all encompassing. I did it just three times and then I was out. I realised that I didn't want a child.

Lisa Stansfield

A really happy kid. I would go off on my own a lot and live in my imagination. When I got my school report back it always said, 'Lisa should try a little harder because she always seems to be in a different world from everyone else.'

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