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Kelela Quotes

American - Musician | June 6, 1983 -

When I started making songs, some of them read as mixtape-y, and some of them read as album-y.

Started Read Songs Making Some Them

Music in the U.K. is not racialised in the same way as it is in the U.S. In the U.S.. it's more rigid and conservative. And white people in the U.K. have more close proximity with black people and people of colour in general.

Music People Black White Way More

It's gratifying to hear something familiar and challenging at the same time.

Time Same Something Hear Familiar

I don't want you to feel defeated, like, 'Oh boy, why do you do this to me?' We have too many of those songs.

Me Feel You Want Why Defeated

I don't write lyrics. I hear the track and sing in gibberish over it, then I try and fit words into the phrasing and melody that I already have set. Everything is left to chance.

Words Chance Try Write Everything

I'm just trying to soundtrack your real life. I'm just trying to give you a place to feel safe in all the parts of your experience.

Life Experience Feel Trying You

It's been hard for me to nail visual language and personal style because I like so many different things.

Style Me Language Personal Hard

'Seat at the Table' has expressed real adversity, struggle, and also triumph and joy.

Adversity Struggle Joy Table Triumph

It's such a challenging time, and in my small way, I will make it so that other younger women, and maybe older women, will be able to do the things they want to do, and accept themselves and their experience.

Women Time Experience Small Want

I like to try out different methods to get to good songs.

Good Try Out Get Different Songs

I would say Tracy Chapman was the first time I obsessed over an entire record. I knew every song; I knew the exact amount of seconds between each song. That's the level of obsession that I had.

Time Song Say First Time First Over

When I was little, my parents would have these gatherings, and it was a common thing for me and my cousins to have to put on, like, shows.

Parents Me Cousins Little Common

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