Nneka Quotes

The most important thing is to have something important to say and finding the means to say it.

I am becoming more recognisable in some ways, and some aspects of my privacy are going. But there's an upside: I have more opportunity to tell bigger stories and connect with more people. And I really relish that responsibility.

We have a platform where a lot of people look up to us and we have a chance to reach a lot of people.

If you really have something to say, sooner or later it will be heard. And if you're lucky you'll still be alive.

The world is waiting to hear from you.

If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

When I speak it is in order to be heard.

If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

I do feel like I'm in this lucky position where I can write something and people will read it, and I feel like I should say something that's probably worth saying... I feel like it's something worth saying, and one more person saying it is better.

My opinion's no more important than anyone else's. It's just that I have the ability to have access to more ears when I speak because of my job.

I'm trying to communicate here. I'm a communicator, I like to communicate, and if a million people buy it then we've touched a million people, if only 10 people buy it, then we've only touched 10, and that's important, because I'm satisfied with only 10. But, I love a million.

There is a big difference between No. 1 and No. 2. I don't care who wrote it. I'd love to one day have a No. 1 that I wrote, but if that ain't in the cards, whatever. My job is right now is to make the best music I can and try to get it to the people, whether it be something that I wrote or not. It's my job to be the best I can for the fans.

When you say something, and a thousand people are hearing it, you hope you leave an impression.

The message that you're portraying, that's what drives the type of people that follow you.

The things I have to say on and off the record are important, and I say them because I want to be heard.

Fame can amplify the message of art in a remarkable, meaningful way.

When you have a platform and people listen, it's very important what you chose to say.

I think that having a platform and having a voice to be seen by people beyond the classical ballet world has really been my power, I feel.

I want to be a voice people listen to and feel good or sad or whatever.

I'm not in a real rush to be a big star.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

So if people will pay attention to what I say because of our success as a group, I am going to use that.