Dawn Angelique Quotes
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I've learned that you only become as creative as you possibly can by staying independent.
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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.
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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.
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The only person who can confine you is yourself.
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I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.
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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.
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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.
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Major labels limit you, but I also learned my tricks from getting around that.
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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.
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Even in independent music, people push towards radio. It is very political.
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I have been doing choreography my whole life, and it's so important to make that marriage between music and the body.
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I'm just being the artist that I would have loved if I was a child.
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I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies.
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I always thought music was open to all things.
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Color has always evoked emotion for me: visually, internally, emotionally.
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We get discouraged sometimes when people look at surface only and neglect the message.
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The same people neglecting and hating are the ones going through issues in their own lives, and they're scared to face that.
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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.
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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.
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It's frustrating when you feel like you have a message to get out and people just judge you regardless.
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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.
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