Laura Mvula Quotes

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• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did and I'd say, well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical - but that…
• I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano exam, and I was quite…
• I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
• I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.
• London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
• Lizz Wright is my favourite singer. Her voice moves me and takes me to another place. She also grows her own food, and that inspires…
• I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
• I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
• I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
• You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I…
• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that…
• I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
• My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
• I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I…
• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
• I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own…
• Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
• My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion…
• I first played the Royal Albert Hall when I was 14. I was a violinist with the Birmingham Schools Concert Orchestra, and we travelled down…
• The first time I sang in church, when I was ten, the applause was so overwhelming that I started to weep. My mum had to…

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