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Portrait of Lisa Lopes

Lisa Lopes

(1971–2002) Singer United States

28 quotes in 148 categories

Lisa Lopes was a singer from the United States, best known for Supernova (7822146732).

Quick Facts About Lisa Lopes

Born: May 27, 1971
Died: April 25, 2002
Nationality: United States
Profession: Singer
Notable works: Supernova (7822146732)

About Lisa Lopes

Lisa Nicole Lopes, also known by her stage name Left Eye, was an American rapper and singer-songwriter. She was a member of the R&B girl group TLC, alongside Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas. Besides rapping on TLC recordings, Lopes was the creative force behind the group, receiving more co-writing credits than the other members. She also designed some of their outfits and the stage for their FanMail Tour and contributed to the group's image, album titles, artworks, and music videos. Through her work with TLC, Lopes won four Grammy Awards.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Lisa Lopes

I hope we go down in history for being something more than just another famous act that got ripped off.

Famous

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This is a cutthroat business full of greedy individuals who take advantage of naive young artists.

Art

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We try to teach women how to be strong, how to believe in themselves, how to make themselves happy, as opposed to…

Be strong

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Let it be understood that I am interested in making multimillion-dollar business deals.

Am

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Everything that we know in the business we've had to learn from mistakes. No one sat us down and taught us or…

Book

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Too many kids think condoms are nasty and vulgar, instead of as something that can save your life.

Life

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Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music.

Inspirational

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The magic of the group has everything to do with the chemistry between myself, Tionne and Chilli. With TLC, it's like, if…

Chemistry

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I see the invisible spirits, where demons still find it livable. I need a hug to hold my soul inside my body.

Body

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I always felt like, well, if TLC doesn't do good, it's because of our own recognizance.

Always

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Energy never dies. It just transforms.

Change

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Whether it's positive or negative press, it's all good. I do understand the game.

Game

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Girls groups tend to break up more because sometimes it's hard for women to get along. And everybody is like, 'They're breaking…

Differences

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Now we know that, the way contracts are set up, it's not really made for artists to get rich from selling records…

Art

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Kids listen to performers and we have a duty to give them certain critical information.

Children

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There are plenty of groups that have come out and did whatever they did and have broken up. Especially girls groups.

Broken

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As long as we're great at what we do, we'll be accepted.

Accepted

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I just want credit for my ideas, because I am the creative force behind TLC.

Behind

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When we were first recording, I was wearing a bag on my head.

Bag

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The truth is, women don't stand up, they're too hushed, they don't like to say stuff.

Stand

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Every time I got drunk, this girl named Nikki would show up. When I got drunk, I was just a different person.…

Battle

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In any business, you get your numbers together before you go out and do the work.

Business

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There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.

Crazy

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We're not hard-core feminists. We like men and we like to have fun with them. But we also want men to think…

Different ways

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When we just hang around, our pants are always sagging.

Always

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