Negash Ali famous quotes

The thing with me is, I'm from a rap background so I'm not really a traditional singer in that sense.
-- Negash Ali

#Rap #Singers #Backgrounds

I've always had good support of parents for doing what I wanted to do. When it became music they were just as supportive as well.
-- Negash Ali

#Parent #Support #Wells

I have an urban background, but I need melody, I need a song, so I try to mix and match and keep it fluid.
-- Negash Ali

#Song #Trying #Needs

When a song comes from a real story and from a real place I think it comes across to people. That's important.
-- Negash Ali

#Song #Real #Thinking

You have a deeper connection with people who you have shared experiences with and shared pain.
-- Negash Ali

#Pain #People #Connections

I believe the things I love inwardly will be received by the right people outwardly. I believe that what I believe in will be received well. I try to keep that as a foundation to what I do.
-- Negash Ali

#Believe #People #Trying

Some people say that music isn't something you are; it's something you do. It's having a constant desire to share and express. But I believe it's something you are. To me it's more inward.
-- Negash Ali

#Believe #People #Desire

I think when you're younger you have a more black-and-white view of things. You're more exclusively dedicated.
-- Negash Ali

#Black And White #Thinking #Views

Nakedness of what you do is exactly who you are, and that's how it should come across.
-- Negash Ali

#Should #Who You Are

...I've never had a dream in my life, Because a dream is what you wanna do, but still haven't pursued. I knew what I wanted, and did it till it was done. So I've been the dream I wanted to be since Day One.

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When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

As a singer you're a great dancer.

If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.

I love folk; that's a big part of my background.

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.

I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.