Top 94 Quotes & Sayings by Jessie Reyez
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian musician Jessie Reyez.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Spanish is my first language.
I'm very meticulous.
I'm sensitive. I'm proud of being sensitive. I'm proud of being empathetic.
It's hard to get someone to sit down and listen to an album in its entirety.
If you're serious about your music, there's this thing called The Remix Project in Toronto, and it's an art incubator, and it's basically like free school. If you don't got money for studio, you don't have the networks, they help you.
I want to be remembered for doing something bigger than myself and making a positive impact on the world. I want to make my life worth something and to die a legend and to make my family proud.
I remember being in the States a few years ago, and when I said I was from Toronto, it doesn't really make a difference. Now you say you're from Toronto, and people want to talk to you a little longer. Drake's putting on and bringing a lot of eyes to the city, but I feel like the seed and the flowers have always been here.
Talk to your enemies; sometimes ignorance comes from a lack of understanding.
I can't be so guarded up all the time. I know it's not healthy.
Me personally, I have a small circle. Part of that is because sometimes, you meet people, and you can feel the synthetic energy.
To be blunt, I feel like lyricism in Spanish is of a different quality than English. You can get really poetic in Spanish, but I feel like if you do that in English, you risk sounding cheesy. In Spanish, it's never that. It's always this deep, passionate, beautiful imagery; it's painted different, a different color.
I think life would be a lot easier if people were able to stand in their mistakes and not backtrack. If you did something wrong, own it. Like, hold your own.
I don't know how other people have a topic or have a goal when making a song, like, 'Let's write about this, or let's write about that.' It's kind of difficult for me. Personally, I like vibing out and freestyling.
My mom says that she caught me one day in front of the TV watching opera. I was trying to sing back the opera. She saw that I really liked music, and so she put me in piano lessons when I was about three years old.
The power's in the people, more so because we have platforms that we can control, like Instagram, Twitter, Soundcloud, where we can deliver straight. If you're building a fanbase, it's in your hands; it's not monopoly. You can do it.
I was very small when I started making music. I think the first song might have been when I was, like, in grade one, maybe? It was really ironic, cause it was a kid talking about taking time with growing up.
At Afropunk, everyone can be themselves, and I think that's beautiful.
I love my smart, supportive, if-I-see-something-I'm-going-to-speak-up type of men.
I'd get out at school at 3:00 P.M., show up to dance practice at 6:30 P.M., practice for three hours till 9:00 P.M., get home at midnight, and try to do whatever homework I could before getting back up for 7:00 A.M. But I did it because I liked dancing, and I loved the music.
I'm all about polarities and juxtapositions.
Canada has this really cool way - specifically Toronto - of encouraging you to wave both flags: if you've been born there, like, wave your flag and then wave your parent's flag, too, and be proud of it.
Ugh, I'm a Gemini!
There are things I still criticize myself heavy for. There are days I have to pick myself back up, but that, to me, is success; it's getting to both sides: physical and the spiritual, mental. Just peace. Peace of mind.
I feel like humans, when you're faced with decisions, you can go up and down: duality.
I remember that I wanted the Razor scooter, and my dad went to the garage, spent one or two days, and built one out of wood and painted it with the Colombian colors.
The second you're not honest with yourself, you've lost everything.
Some people's parents listened to the Beatles... but my family is Alquimia, Celia Cruz, and Carlos Vives - this old, rich Colombian music. I loved hearing that while I was growing up.
I have really dope parents.
I know I'm my own worst critic.
I ended up moving to Miami and bartending, but the party atmosphere is a black hole down there. People party all the time, and if you're working in the industry, you're sleeping all day and at the club all night, day after day.
Fear is a real thing.
At every show, I pray with my band. It's a big thing.
I'll never pretend to be I'm something I'm not.
Kali Uchis is a dope person. Her voice, her style - she's so unique.
My earliest memories have to do with music.
All of the songs on 'Kiddo' were a part of my soul; they're songs that I could never give away.
When you come from an immigrant home, you're in a whole different world until you leave your house. In my teenage years, I had to learn to switch cultures the second I left my house and, when I came back, to go back to my fundamentals.
I was an awful singer when I was younger.
Authenticity is hella important.
I'm a fan of writing, and writing letters, because I hate when I'm trying to get a thought out, and I can't.
Luckily, everyone that I've collaborated with, everyone that has been willing to offer guidance and advice, they've all been dope people.
I'm appreciating every single bit of success I get, no matter how small.
I purposely try to make my music cinematic. I try to inspire visuals even though I'm only an instrument of sound.
I struggle with insecurities. I struggle with forgiveness. I struggle with letting someone go that did me dirty without vengeance, which is an evil thing.
Music's always been in my home. My dad plays guitar, and I grew up listening to cumbia and salsa and boleros.
I'm just happy to know that no part of me thinks that I made it. Everything in me says you need to keep going, keep working.
When I sing in Spanish, my tone is different. I feel more relaxed because that's how I speak to my family.
You have to have your own back.
I feel like truth resonates, and you can taste when something is synthetic.
When I went to school, I didn't know a lick of English, but it was okay because there were so many immigrants in the area, a lot of the kids didn't speak a lick of English, either. It was normal to have a wicked accent.
Before I pass, I want to start an orphanage and name it after my mother. She worked with kids all her life.
Frank Ocean - I have so much respect for him.
Someone can be miles away, but if they're in your heart, that means they're locked in your head, too.
I remember going to audition in Toronto for a girl group. I was 15 or 16. I went in with my guitar. I had the wickedest nerves, man! I was decent, but not good enough.
The key to having something beautiful is being able to convey a normal human emotion but say it in a way that's never been said.
My demons are not that easy to shake.
I'm a fan of leaving people hungry; I don't like leaving people satisfied.
I know I'm grown, but there's a part of me who will eternally be six years old.
I feel like my objective in music is to take a hammer and nail and chip away a piece of my heart and give it to someone, so I feel, with merch, it's a tangible parallel of that.
Why am I who I am? It's the way I was raised.
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