Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" From a very early age, I decided that I wanted to be able to do my music but still be able to live a normal life. "

Solange Knowles

Related Quotes:

" Luckily, I dated all of the losers ages ago. My love life has been stable for a while. "

Solange Knowles

" It's always been my dream to look like Mariah Carey in my photos with a microphone. I don't know how she does it. When she sings, she looks perfect. "

Solange Knowles

" I'm trying to cut down my cursing. "

Solange Knowles

" Motherhood is such an evolving journey. "

Solange Knowles

" I'd rather be on the cast of 'Love & Hip-Hop' than 'Project Runway.' "

Solange Knowles

" I think all artists have a different story to tell, and no story is the same. "

Solange Knowles

" Fashion is a strange world sometimes. Amazing, but strange. "

Solange Knowles

" I'm happy that I have a beautiful, wonderful, amazing child who's made me a better person. "

Solange Knowles

" Both my parents are first-generation success stories. "

Solange Knowles

" If I have on a bright red lip, you'll rarely ever catch me with eyeshadow on. It's one or the other for me - pick one feature for the day and really focus on that. "

Solange Knowles

" The Hadley Street Dream is a tribute to making a vision come to life. My father built a compound on a dessert city block, he saw something in that space we couldn't see. It was years later the album was born right there on Hadley St. He built the studio I started recording the album at. "

Solange Knowles

" If a piece makes you look good and makes it easier to get dressed, it wins. "

Solange Knowles

" I have a mother who never took no for an answer when it came to her creative pursuits. She started a hair salon in her spare bedroom and four years later had 30 employees. "

Solange Knowles

" Colors and prints are part of my style. "

Solange Knowles

" People who live in L.A. don't like to leave their homes because they have so much space. They have the nice kitchens and a cook and a pool. When you live in L.A., there is a sense of isolation in terms of raising a family. "

Solange Knowles

" I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion. "

Solange Knowles

" I really fell in love with dance. By the time I was seven, I had dance class six times a week. I was obsessed. "

Solange Knowles

" Traveling is definitely something that your average 17-year-old doesn't get to do. One week we're in Japan, one week we're in Australia, one week we're back home going to football games. "

Solange Knowles

" I have always had tremendous respect for my sister as an artist, as a woman, and now as a mother. "

Solange Knowles

" I have more to offer than music that is automatically dance. "

Solange Knowles

" It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music. "

Solange Knowles

" I can tell you what I really love: when I run into people on the street that tell me they have connected with my music. "

Solange Knowles

" I'm making the music I want to make, in my own space, and it's just incredible to be able to continue to do that. "

Solange Knowles

" Mainstream media tends to showcase a very specific kind of Mardi Gras, but my experience of Mardi Gras is very different; it's very cultural. "

Solange Knowles

" I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect. "

Solange Knowles

" I felt like when I took my weave out, I wasn't pretty, I wasn't noticeable. "

Solange Knowles

" You just have to know that the more successful you get as an artist, the less of a normal life you have. It's a trade-off. "

Solange Knowles

" I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point. "

Solange Knowles

" My sound is Solange. It's definitely not Destiny's Child. "

Solange Knowles

" Why is it so important for you to give back? I honestly feel like it's our responsibility as citizens of the world to ground ourselves in selflessness and all do our part. "

Solange Knowles