Snoh Aalegra Quotes

I feel like vocals are to music what portraits are to painting. They're the humanity. Landscapes are good and fine, but at the end of the day everyone loves the Mona Lisa.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.

Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.

I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.

I want people to understand balance. I might make a banger, and that's the way that I feel, and then I may want to make a song that's really deep.

I love songwriting, and rap is part of my songwriting, but I'm not a rapper.

I love what Drake does.

I know, deep down, that what makes my music what it is are my words. It always starts from me wanting to say something. Once I've run out of things to say, I'll be done.

Drake is my favorite rapper.

I love Drake; he's amazing.

I want people to really recognize that this is what I am naturally good at: I'm really good at making music and describing your feelings vicariously through my experiences, through my past and my future. I want people to relate to me in multiple ways and be versatile in my music.

I love Kanye for that. Being a producer, making beats, and being a rapper. He does it all.

In hip-hop, sometimes that pace is so fast that you miss things. I don't mean literally miss lyrics; I just think there's an emotion in what these cats are saying that gets by you. When you slow things down, there's this emotion, this yearning.

From the beginning with 'So Far Gone,' Drake's work has been to find a way to deftly balance his singing and his rapping.

Lyrically and melodically, Drake was definitely a big influence of mine.

I love Drake.

I'm just tryna be honest about all the things that I dig in my music. It's not just this over here, it's also that over there.

Songwriting has become such a big part of what I do that emotions and the melodies that accompany them blur into one.

Drake is one of my favorite artists, so it would definitely be a honor to make a track with him.

Drake is damn near the best with melodies.

I think my heart will always be made of metal, but it would be ignorant of me and kind of foolish to ignore the other emotional connections you can make in all kinds of music.

Who is the best rapper ever? I'll probably have to say Eminem. I would definitely say Eminem. He came from a whole another culture, literally. Mastered it, outsold everybody and he did every kind of record imaginable. He could take any topic and make a song out of it. I haven't seen any artist do that yet.