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"37 Sade Adu Quotes & Sayings

      Nigerian     /    
Born: 16 January 1959 | Musician | Actress |

When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.

Studio Go Detach Emotions
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To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.
Be Strong Even Feel Mother
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I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.

Bored Easily Get Kind
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

Am Celebrity I Am Reluctant
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I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.

Always Celebrity More Much
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I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.

Absolutely Got Perception Properly
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If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.

Album Better Every Good
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Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?

Cooking Doing Food Lost
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When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.

Arenas Audience Create Feel
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I look a lot like my father and his mother.
Father His Like Look
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

Journalists Just My Time People
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I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.

Always Aristocrat Bother Chop
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
Am Because Class Difficult
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There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.

As Far As Class Concerned Far
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I've never associated myself with other singers, certainly not female singers.
Associated Certainly Female Myself
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I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

Ambition Aspire Just People
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I can't see myself just endlessly singing the same songs over and over again.

Again Endlessly Just Myself
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I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

Always Attitude Bit Had
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I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.

Attention Avoid Best Bring
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My father was a very difficult man.

Difficult Father Man Very
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I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.

Fairly Over Over The Top Reflects
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I don't like looking outrageous.

Like Fashion Looking Outrageous
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The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.

Anxiety Feel I Feel Late
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People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.

Attention Aware Back Begging
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My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
Daughter Mindset My Really
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When I was young, people were almost identified solely by the kind of music they liked. People fell into categories of who liked what.

Almost Categories Fell Identified
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Radio interviews are really snappy and I'm just bad at that. I just close down.

Bad Close Down Interviews
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

Been Feel I Think Insider
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People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.

Around Camera Cameras Conscious
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

Belong Longer Mine Music
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When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
Audience Connection Music Regain
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My musical career was an accident.

Accident An Career Musical
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I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.

Am Music Technical Training
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Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.

About Experiences Friends Little
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London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.

City Comfortable How Incredible
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Sade Adu Quotes & Sayings