Instant Quote by Emeli Sande

“Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.”

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I'd be smiling if I wasn't so desperate. I'd be patient if I had the time.

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I mean, there'll always be room for big productions and everything but it's good to see the other side.

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From when I was a kid I wanted to write. It was so important to me that I was writing my own material.

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I was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with people was…

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I couldn't help but feel very different from everybody, so I think that's why I found such a big world in music, and that's…

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I think on the first album, my aim was to write a good song and have a good melody, and I wanted lyrics that would connect with as many people as possible. On the second album, I took a lot more of a personal approach. I wasn't trying to make conventional, structured songs; I was really trying to get a…

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Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a…

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I don't know if I was as ambitious as to change the world, but I do feel like - the reason why I called…

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“you've got the words to change a nation but your biting your tongue, you've spent a lifetime in silence afraid that you'll say something…

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I want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a…

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Just thinking of all the things I'd done getting there and everything I've sacrificed to do so. But what's happening now makes it worth…

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