Iggy Azalea Quotes
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I felt like everyone was shitting on me, like, "She didn't get that deal with Interscope. She got dropped! She won't get another project!" making it so much worse then any of it really was. I felt like they wanted me to fail and I thought, I'm not going to go anywhere. I'm going to get my glory. I'm going to get my shine.
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Whenever my country has something bad happening I feel guilty for not being there. It's weird.
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Anyone's happier when they're not being verbally abused all day long.
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My family came to Australia on the First Fleet. My family’s been in that country for a long time, over 100 years. If your family’s lived in Australia for a long time, everyone has a little bit of [Aborigine blood]. I know my family does because we have an eye condition that only Aboriginal people have.
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Not every artist is a role model.
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Once you go great, you never go good..You never go back, even if you could.
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First things first, I'm da realest.
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I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.
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I found it to be kind of ironic, because I’m white, therefore I’m appropriating culture, but then Eminem won it - who’s white and won it many times - and they didn’t seem to say anything about that. I suspect it was just because they dislike me.
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At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change - that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great.
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I naturally want to be provocative.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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I think its funny when people say a female rapper is too sexually charged, maybe the way I do it is a little more in your face but that's because I have to be aggressive and masculine to make it in the industry. If I talk about sex blatantly, when the mainstream media says it metaphorically every day, it's not okay? It's hypocritical.
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People think I'm more wild than I am... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.
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I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
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Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.
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Pledge allegiance to the struggle.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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Women in music have the bigger balls anyhow we endure much more harassment and critic.
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I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.
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No one can break me down. I know my worth and its a beautiful thing.
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No money, no family, 16 in the middle of Miami.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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I'm irrational about all things creative and I'm always late!
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
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There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
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