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Alessia Cara

(1996) Singer

119 quotes in 423 categories

I do feel pressure from the outside world because everybody wants new music—Cara talks about the constant demand on artists. She hopes her song “Scars to Your Beautiful” can lift every girl who has struggled with self‑image. She also notes that, as a young woman, she often has to work harder to prove herself.

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Alessia Cara is a singer.

Quick Facts About Alessia Cara

Born: July 11, 1996
Profession: Singer

About Alessia Cara

Italian-Canadian singer, songwriter and actress... | Alessia Caracciolo, known professionally as Alessia Cara, is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She began posting covers of songs on YouTube at age 13. After uploading acoustic covers of songs such as "Love Yourself" and "Sweater Weather" online, she signed with EP Entertainment and Def Jam Recording

Quotes by Alessia Cara

I wasn't even popular at school.

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I never really necessarily liked being quiet.

Being

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I'm unpolished, I guess.

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Cats are evil, and they hate me.

Cats

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I'm not a fitness model; I'm just a singer. If people focus on that, that's what I care about.

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You don't always have to be popular and do things everyone else is doing.

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I think all teenagers feel a lot of things at once; everything's going crazy in our brain.

Brain

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I'm really in touch with my Italian roots. My mom's whole side of the family is there.

Family

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I am stubborn enough to know not to change myself.

Change

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There's something so beautiful in a woman who loves her body and is confident.

Beautiful

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Realize that everyone that you think is perfect feels like they're not good enough, too.

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I'm a fan of real singers. I just gravitate towards that.

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Success is when you see something, and you say, 'I want to do that,' and then you do it. It's being happy…

Day

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The definition of being a feminist is equality, and if you're not a feminist at this point, then what are you really…

Being

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I think we all have the right to feel 100 percent beautiful and 100 percent confident without pleasing anybody 'cause we're not…

Beautiful

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It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going…

Art

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I loved the Black Eyed Peas. I was obsessed with them, and they were my favorite group ever, and Amy Winehouse, as…

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I don't want to be cliched, but Buckingham Palace is beautiful, and the old red telephone booths are really interesting to me.…

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Having a mom as a hairdresser was really awesome: I was always her test dummy. I've had every style, every color you…

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Throughout my high school years, I was very quiet, I didn't have many friends. I distanced myself from a lot of people.

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I always get criticized for my clothing because I like wearing jeans and T-shirts. There's nothing wrong with dressing sexy. It's just…

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I don't really think I got the full high school experience, only because when I got to high school for the first…

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I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real…

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I was too shy to do any vocal lessons or go to choirs; I just didn't want to be seen doing it.…

Lessons

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I've now learned how to do it, I can write anywhere. I'm the type of person that will get a random idea…

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It took me a while to really believe in myself or feel determined about it, but then once I realized that it's…

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My family is from the south of Italy in this little place called Calabria. It's a big part of my family, the…

Culture

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I do feel pressure from the outside world a little bit just because everybody wants new music, which is really nice. It…

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I would never wear anything because someone told me to.

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I keep my hair curly and natural because I really just wanna show who I am.

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Once you put songs out, they're not yours anymore. They're everyone else's.

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I feel New York is too crazy for me, especially when you go to Times Square.

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Talent is talent, but fashion is separate, and it shouldn't be used to judge me as a singer.

Fashion

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I'd never make something pointless that I don't believe in. I don't think I could do it.

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I think patience is the best thing to try to embrace.

Best things

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I'm definitely not a supermodel, a thousand per cent.

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That's all I ever wanted to do: put out music from the heart that people could relate to.

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We all just need to love ourselves and believe in ourselves.

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I just want to keep my normal life for as long as possible.

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I don't put the focus on things that don't matter.

Focus

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