"You don't have to aim to be the……" — Laura Mvula
"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 don't think it exists."
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21 Quotes by Laura Mvula
Laura Mvula has 21 quotes on this site.
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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,…
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I remember listening to Miles Davis in the car with my dad. I had just done my Grade 5 piano…
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I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem…
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I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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Lizz Wright is my favourite singer. Her voice moves me and takes me to another place. She also grows her…
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I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
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I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that…
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I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started…
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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,…
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate…
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My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the…
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More Aim Quotes
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
— Aristotle
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of…
— Benigno Aquino III
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If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in…
— David Attenborough
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
— Jane Austen
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment…
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are…
— Bryan Adams
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
— Jacques Barzun
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