Naima Adedapo Quotes

I think it is your job as an artist to be able to hear a song.

We influence singing but never really songwriting.

I have been taking voice and singing lessons since age 10 and originally got into it because I was really interested in musical theater. After writing my first couple of songs and performing at age 14, I knew that I really wanted to be a singer.

'm not saying I would never do acting again, because I love it, but there really is nothing compared to getting up in front of people and singing your music.

As a singer, the biggest joy I have are the arrangements.

Music is supposed to be inspired.

Acting is awesome, but I'm really, really able to express myself creatively in music.

When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want.

Whether I'm writing for myself or someone else, I'll always write a song that I would feel comfortable singing.

I want to express my ideas through my music and on stage because I'm a musician.

I wanted to try everything. I learnt a lot from playback singing. But at heart, I'm a pop rock singer; I'm a stage performer.

Apart from acting, I love singing as well.

I just don't see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. It's more trying to express ideas and emotional textures.

I just make videos and stuff. There's not much more to it than that. I'm a musician trying to express myself.

I really like the art of music, the way that you can express yourself through music.

I'm writing songs that I want to sing.

I don't have a journal; I write music.

Because of things like 'The X Factor' and 'Autotune', the real art of communicating a song is not treasured any more. But singing other people's songs can be an intensely personal experience. I want the songs to be vessels that people fill with their own imagination, the same way that I fill it with my thoughts and feelings.

I love performing on my own scores. I do it quite a lot.

I don't think a good singer or a great singer is either of those things without a great song.

Even as a little kid, I just loved to make my own music. So I loved singing, and I loved sharing it because it was a way to connect to people.

I love performance, but I'm quite happy making videos as well, and I'm inordinately happy writing songs.

Some people don't realize that I did most of the 'Deadmans.' People don't know that I wrote two 'Spectres.'

I like to see myself as a composer first and only then as a singer.

Everyone thought my first album would be instrumental, but I didn't want to do it - it took me eight months to make.