Kelela Quotes

I remember when I first came out as an artist, back in 2004 or 2005, the record label used to take me to all the radio stations and just have me sit in, like, their lunchroom or their conference room, and play for the whole staff. Just to introduce them to me so they would play my records.

If you are the record label who owns Lady Gaga, and you have a new artist coming up, you can say, 'Let's have the artist play just before Gaga.' Now you've exposed the huge Gaga audience to the new artist. It's similar to showing a trailer before a movie. The hit creates a hit.

The first sentence of a book is a promise.

What people are feeling is the similarity in what I do and how I'm capable of breaking a new artist into a competitive field. People can't wrap their head around the fact that Gaga did not do that on her own. She didn't. There was a Laurieann Gibson.

How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting.

The new artist is meeting the general public before they meet the record company. They're able to put the material on YouTube and have a million views before they even meet an executive at a record company, and get the deal based on that.

My first album done what it had to do. It introduced me.

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

Names aren't just coathooks, they're coats. They're the first thing anyone knows about you.

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.

Shy Carter helped me write 'One Call Away.' He is a brand new artist. I really want to help jumpstart his career because I think he's super-talented.

I'm new to a lot of people, and I don't think anyone wants to listen to 16 tracks of a new artist.

The song that's mostly changing my career or made the biggest impact on my career would be 'Catch Me Outside.' Mainly because it hit YouTube, and that was, like, my first-ever video, so people never really seen what I looked like or knew exactly what I was about, so that was, like, the first taste of what they got.

There's some dudes that did Gangsta Grillz tapes who probably weren't worthy of it - their label just put up the bread, or they did a favor.

If you haven't heard my music before, 'Spirit Voices' is a great place to start.

The way streaming is going, this movement in the market of music would suggest that doing a long-form project, especially for a new artist like me - someone who relies on a lot of digital following - it would make more sense for me to release the songs individually.

You know when you first meet someone and they shake your hand? Hugging is how I shake hands.

I knew I wanted to marry Liz the day I met her. Deep down I knew she was The One.

I shake hands on the first date.

You dont know me, you just met me, well if i couldnt have it..silly rabbit, why ya sweat me

Then Day reaches out and touches my hand with his. He encloses it in a handshake. And just like that, I am linked with him again, I feel the pulse of our bond and his- tory and love through our hands, like a wave of magic, the return of a long-lost friend. Of something meant to be. The feeling brings tears to my eyes. Perhaps we can take a step forward together. “Hi,” he says. “I’m Daniel.” “Hi,” I reply. “I’m June.

So if you're not Artemis Fowl, then who are you?" The boy extended a dripping hand straight up. "My name is Orion. I am so pleased to meet you at last. I am, of course, your servant." Holly shook the proferred hand, thinking that manners were lovely, but she really needed someone cunning and ruthless right now, and this kid didn't appear to be very cunning.

Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist