Dawn Angelique famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I like to make people dream and think and imagine and learn and study. Nowadays, music is so literal - it's telling you, "This is how it is," and my music's the opposite. I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know.
-- Dawn Angelique

#Dream #Thinking #People
I'm not going to say I'll never rock with a band, because I'm too much of a fan of the aesthetic of a great band. But a girl group? Not again.
-- Dawn Angelique

#Girl #Rocks #Groups
I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student. I wanted to learn the actual idea of what this industry was before I could creatively speak a lot of the things that I wanted to speak.
-- Dawn Angelique

#Writing #Ideas #Appreciate
I'm just being the artist that I would have loved if I was a child.
-- Dawn Angelique

#Children #Artist #Just Being
Major labels limit you, but I also learned my tricks from getting around that.
-- Dawn Angelique

#Labels #Limits #Tricks
At a label, you are confined to the team you have, but I did all my solo work myself, and that makes you more agile and able to go into weirder corners.
-- Dawn Angelique

#Team #Labels #Able
I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.
-- Dawn Angelique

#Mother #School #Body
I have been doing choreography my whole life, and it's so important to make that marriage between music and the body.
-- Dawn Angelique

#Important #Body #Whole Life
I've only covered a few songs because I feel that if you're not going to go beyond the original artist in some way, then don't disrespect what they created.
-- Dawn Angelique

#Song #Artist #Disrespect
I've always been an outsider kid. But I had always wanted to be in a group - growing up, I loved bands like the Cranberries and K's Choice.
-- Dawn Angelique

#Growing Up #Kids #Choices
I've learned that you only become as creative as you possibly can by staying independent.
-- Dawn Angelique

#Independent #Creative #I've Learned
I always thought music was open to all things.
-- Dawn Angelique

#All Things
We get discouraged sometimes when people look at surface only and neglect the message.
-- Dawn Angelique

#People #Looks #Messages
The same people neglecting and hating are the ones going through issues in their own lives, and they're scared to face that.
-- Dawn Angelique

#Hate #Issues #People
I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies.
-- Dawn Angelique

#Book #Literature #Trilogies
I thought if I gave people all of my journey in one go, it could be overwhelming and easily forgotten, and I didn't want to make an album where the single was so popular that you overlook the whole record. So three parts felt right - it's a number that can't be divided into.
-- Dawn Angelique

#Journey #Numbers #People
Color has always evoked emotion for me: visually, internally, emotionally.
-- Dawn Angelique

#Color #Emotion
The only person who can confine you is yourself.
-- Dawn Angelique

#Persons
Even in independent music, people push towards radio. It is very political.
-- Dawn Angelique

#Independent #People #Political
There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies.
-- Dawn Angelique

#Fighting #Secret #Scene
It's frustrating when you feel like you have a message to get out and people just judge you regardless.
-- Dawn Angelique

#People #Judging #Messages

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