Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Gabriella Wilson
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Gabriella Wilson.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I was almost afraid to speak on the things I've dealt with as a woman.
I'm so emotional when it comes to even the smallest thing.
A lot of women need to know that they don't have to conform, they don't have to take no for an answer.
I don't like to rush things.
When you're growing up as a young woman, you develop all of these insecurities, and then there's boys and all of that stuff on top of that.
Whether you know who I am or not, you don't really know who I am.
People are gonna listen to the music whether or not I reveal myself.
When I was a little bitty kid, I was listening to the stuff my parents were listening to. My mom was a huge Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige fan. My dad had a cover band that I sang with, and he loved Parliament, Prince, Jimi Hendrix, and Eric Clapton, the blues, James Brown.
I don't know if I have a favorite part of being an artist. I do love being onstage and performing with my band. I also love rehearsing with them and creating the show, that's always a fun part. But there's also nothing like being in the studio and being able to get back to myself and get back to my feelings.
I've learned a lot about myself through my music and the way people perceive it, and the goal is for the success not to change me.
Throughout my teenage years or whatever, I've been so uncomfortable, or I've made mistakes and I've felt like I'm the only one who has done that.
Black culture, to me, is so important and I identify with young black women.
Sometimes it's all about hype, and I didn't want hype.
I was like, 'Wow, Tommy Hilfiger wants to work with little old me.' All the dots connected, we had a meeting, and everything started to come together.
The studio is the place for me to really confront my feelings and get it all out. I love being in that space and creating, doing what I love, making art.
People have always tried to imitate, but at the end of the day, no one can do me better than I can do me, you know?
Music was all around me from the time I came into the world.
The fact that I can travel around the world doing what I love is such a blessing. I've learned that traveling is such an important thing; there's so many beautiful things out there and we get worried about such little things.
I want women to really feel how honest and vulnerable I am and to understand that they are not alone and that these are all human emotions.
I'd rather have quality over quantity. It's about perfecting each song and making sure it's what you want to do. And then even with what I share it's all very strategic.
Being anonymous, I thought I'd just release the music and see what happens organically.
I'm half-Filipino and Filipinos love karaoke.
I think most women, we have intuition. We always know what we always want to find out. We always want to be wrong, and we hate when we're right at the end of the day. People say we love to be right. That's not true. We don't like to be right, because usually we know when it's the truth.
I always say that my music is my diary. It's very personal to me.
I definitely study the greats.
Good things take time.
I would not be able to sleep at night and I would practice my Grammys speech. That was definitely me.
I plan on donating a bunch of guitars to different schools around the country. There could be a new Slash out there, there could be a new Lenny Kravitz.
Seeing people Tweet my lyrics and really feeling for me, feeling what I'm feeling... in one of my lyrics I sing about 'the watch I just got for you,' and some girl was like, 'Yes! I bought him a watch!' I can be happy because these women feel me.
I've been singing love songs since I was a toddler, I was singing Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and even Alicia Keys song, that helped my writing so much.
Some people want the attention, some people want the spotlight, and that just wasn't it for me.
I want people to feel the emotion, try to relate to the way that I look or want to be like me in the way that I'm living or whatever.
My parents have very different tastes. They exposed me to so many different things. I represent both sides.
Music is just in me and I didn't even realize it early on that I was going to do music.
My dad and I would perform around the Bay Area where I'm from in California together, and I also did talent shows growing up, I loved it.
Before anybody knew who I was, I was just working on what I love and having fun with it, and I'm sticking with that - because, ultimately, that's what people want to see.
I really just wanted it to be about the music, and get away from, 'Who is she with?' and 'What is she wearing?'
Through the music, you can pretty much tell what I've been through and what I've accepted. And releasing it has made me realize I'm not alone in it, because of the reactions I've been getting.
I think people often tend to listen to music with their eyes and not their ears, and I just wanted my work to shine, and to be able to convey my message without imagery taking away from that.
I don't want people to love my music because of what I look like or who I know or whatever.
I'm all about comfort.
I will say about my fans, from day one they've been listening and are still listening to my projects on repeat.
I'm just going to keep doing what I've been doing.
You can't avoid heartbreak, you can't avoid a lot of things. You have to go through them in order to become the person you're going to be.
I'm so thankful that at this point, even if you see my face or know who I am, it doesn't matter, because you already love the music.
As a black woman, I've always had to work hard to earn my respect as a musician - and as a young woman, too. As a writer, in certain sessions or certain rooms people think, 'Who's kid is this? Who's this little girl?' I've had to prove myself.
I guess 16, 17, 18, that whole period was a dark time for me. I guess it was a hormonal thing, going through all those changes as a young woman, learning who you are and being comfortable with yourself, and also, which goes along with that, boys. It was definitely an unhappy, 'Who am I?' period. 'Who am I gonna be?'
My dad had a cover band. They would rehearse in my living room while my mom was pregnant.
Sometimes I'll just go on my piano and just start playing what I'm feeling. It all depends on what I'm feeling at the moment.
It's really powerful to have a strong base that genuinely loves the music and plays it over and over again.
I was a kid. I would go home and play instruments, and I would be at school on the playground the next day.
Some people, they make these assumptions before they even listen to the music.
I'm a perfectionist and I want everything to be amazing every single show.
I have to keep doing me. I have to not look at what everybody else is doing, or what everybody else thinks should be happening right now.
I wanted it to be about the music, so maintaining that is kind of difficult. But it's something I found made the most sense because it's about the music at the end of the day. That's what I'm most passionate about.
As a person, I'm just trying to be better than I was yesterday and continue to elevate.
One of the first CDs I ever bought was Alicia Keys's 'MTV Unplugged' album. That album is the one I would take home and listen to on my Walkman, in my room, before I had an iPod. I learned most of the songs on piano.
I never really thought of myself as someone who was gifted.
Living my truth was very hard - I felt vulnerable.
I always feel like we focus too much on image and the flashiness of what it means to be an artist.
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