Dua Lipa Quotes

I don't like being categorized as a rapper. I make music; I don't just rap.

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

Just understand that the type of music that I make is something special.

I never looked or really believed that music should be categorized into particular genres.

I don't like to classify my own tracks as a genre.

We don't want to categorize our music. Some people say you need a definite musical direction to give a group visibility.

Honestly, I don't really hear the comparisons to Taylor Swift anymore. I think it's because people are finally starting to see me for who I am and my craft and not being the next Taylor.

I don't think a song should be put in a category.

I'm doing music that I like and that I hope other people will like too.

I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

I think it's always a mistake when you start connecting a band to a personality. You begin to limit what you're able to do.

Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.

My 'Slide Some Oil' ain't gon' be Nipsey Russell's 'Slide Some Oil.' Elijah Kelley's 'You Can't Win' ain't gon' be Michael Jackson's 'You Can't Win.'

People don't expect me to make pop music.

My voice makes the genre because I sound like me on all my songs - I've made my own genre: Jorja Smith.

I've never been one of those people who say, 'Oh, well, if you play this kind of music, you can only like these kinds of bands.'

Unfortunately it's easy to just label us as part of a Laurel Canyon sound. What we try to do is to be unique.

It's just I do things differently and I want people to appreciate music for what it is, and not because of a story.

If you think of a solo artist, you normally know them by their name; you don't normally describe their kind of music. You just say, 'It's so and so, or it's so and so.' But with bands, everyone feels an obligation to categorize them.

I was known as a ballad singer who sang melodramatic heavily produced ballads. I'm not known as a mid-tempo singer who does fun songs. I'm not going to do a song like 'Dancing on the Ceiling.'

When you release a single like 'My Friends Over You,' people just think you have one kind of song.

With the first album, we felt people didn't really understand our band.