Lady Saw quotes

“I came at a time where male artists where dominating, so I had to do something quick to get people's attention. I wanted to let people know that women artists can hold their own compare to the men. Sex got their attention, while I open the road for the other female artists.”
-- Lady Saw

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“When I was a girl, I would make up songs for fun. Then I realized, after making them up, that I could remember how they went a week later - I remember that's when I thought: Maybe I'm gonna be a singer.”
-- Lady Saw

Source : Interview with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, believermag.com. July 1, 2010.

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“I don't hide anything about my life, I talk about everything. I talk about it - all kinds of things. I've done songs about bad experiences, a couple about growing up in the ghetto and being abused, sexually. Being raped. And I talk about it.”
-- Lady Saw

Source : Interview with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, believermag.com. July 1, 2010.

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“Well a lot of females complain about getting into the business, like men producers always wanna get (in bed) with them before, but it wasn't like that for me, I was good from start so I had no problems when it came to recording.”
-- Lady Saw

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“I used to produce years ago when I feel like. I produced myself, Bounty Killer. That was the first set. Then I did a Bounty Killer, Lexxus, Spragga Benz, Sizzla, a whole lot of artist.”
-- Lady Saw

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“I'm inspired to write songs by all kinds of things. Good sex with a good man, that might inspire a song. Bad sex - that might inspire a different kind of song.”
-- Lady Saw

Source : Interview with Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, believermag.com. July 1, 2010.

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“I would tell new artists to be themselves. Show your talents first, have your own identity, don't try to be Lady Saw. If you're coming out to be like me, once you get in, return back to yourself, that's the only way you'll be happy. Don't come in trying to be me and then disrespect me.”
-- Lady Saw

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“I'm a foodie, I'm always eating, I'm eating right now ...sometimes I get fat around the waist, but I don't care.”
-- Lady Saw

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“My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.”

“I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.”

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“Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.24, Univ of California Press

“An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.54, Univ of California Press

“We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.”

“Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.143, Univ of California Press

“Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.”

“He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back”

“This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.”

“God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.”