Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Kali Uchis
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Colombian musician Kali Uchis.
Last updated on November 4, 2024.
I'm just inspired by life and, growing up, I listened to all types of different sounds, genres, and areas of music.
California feels like Colombia but with less threats. I don't have to be constantly looking over my shoulder.
Aliens are definitely real.
I'm naturally sort of a sad person, and that comes out in my music, but when I realized how many people were listening to it... I wanted to be a little more conscious about what I was putting out and what people were going to be taking from it.
On my off day, I really want to just lay in bed.
No matter where you are, what point in your life you're at, it's not the end.
Spanish is such an important language globally.
Music is your way to change the frequencies of everything around you and move your own body, move your whole environment.
I was always into music and stuff, so I would always make songs since I was little.
I've always experimented with my look. Growing up, I thought it was so weird that people dressed alike and all bought the same things.
When I was 18 or 19, I realized that everything I was doing was connected to music - writing, doing videos, making my clothes. It all centered around being an artist. So I released a mixtape that I made in my bedroom, and it ended up getting a lot more attention than I expected.
I never had a backup plan. I felt like if I had a backup plan, it was like saying to the universe that I didn't believe in myself.
Sometimes I leave mayonnaise on the ends of my hair for a few hours while I'm writing; it's a really good moisturizer.
I can only be inspired if I'm working with people that I really respect.
Diplo kept asking me who styled my 'What They Say' video. I was like, 'No, that's just my clothes!'
We're all born into whatever citizenship, circumstances, or class we happen to be born into. Immigrants and so many people in the working class work so hard every day for nickels and pennies and scraps to just barely get by and then realize that this precious life has been completely drained out of us.
I started making music by myself and figuring all of that on my own.
I think it's boring when everybody wears the same brands or the same styles, and it's like, 'Oh, this is the new trend.'
Just because someone is your family member doesn't mean they're a good person.
As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other level that men don't have to face.
It's easy to just write about love, because everyone can relate, but I like variety.
When you're an artist, you're working, literally, for the sole purpose of art, and when people discredit you, it's probably the most disrespectful thing you can do.
No one can decide what you should do, what course of action you should take to get where you wanna go, except for yourself.
The reason I made my stage name Kali Uchis is because it's still me in the sense that, my dad called me 'Kali Uchis' my whole life. It's still something I've been called since I was a baby. It's still me.
I'm into crystals and good energy and harnessing more. It's just like prayer. It helps you be grateful, think about good things, and keep that positive energy around you.
Not everything happens when you expect it; it is what it is. The people who ride with you, ride with you.
I don't like to see people using their power over others, trying to hurt people who are weak or poor or people with darker skin or anyone who doesn't have as much privilege. It makes me so angry. I want to fight for people. I want to be able to make some kind of difference in the world.
I was really grateful for the photography classes, the art classes, and the video classes. They would let me skip all my other classes and stay and work on my projects.
I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it.
I wasn't into social media at all, but when I decided I was going to put out my own music, I said, 'Okay, I'm just going to post it.' And that's when it started its rounds on the Internet, and people started to take an interest in me.
I was one of those people at one point who was scared to put my foot down and show where the boundaries were. For me, it's really important to stand your ground and know exactly what you are, where you wanna be, and what you're doing, or else people are gonna try you.
Selena is a classic and timeless singer, and she really doesn't need an introduction. Her music is always good for the soul.
I've never been pressed to be friends with everyone or be popular, even in school - I've always done my own thing.
I just believe in standing up for people and against discrimination. I consider myself an advocate for human rights.
N.E.R.D. was also from - not too far from where I was from growing up. For a lot of people who make music, that was a huge influence in teen years.
I'm a big Gorillaz fan.
You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful... that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist for the rest of your life.
My father is my hero. No matter what, I'll always forgive him.
The first time I did a show, I definitely didn't get any money. My friend just let me do this show. I was so nervous: my mic didn't work, and I was like, 'Urgh.' It was terrible. It was a dingy club off of the highway, but all these people came. It was packed out.
I didn't want to go to school, because I wanted to be an artist, and they were never going to teach me art. None of my family had ever done that kind of stuff either.
There's no particular method or course of action that I take in order to decide who I'm going to work with besides feeling complete and total respect and admiration for that artist.
Colombian culture has had a huge influence on me and taught me a different way of looking at things - I was always different from the people I went to school with, and I learned to embrace that.
A lot of people were getting million-dollar deals from music I felt was trash, because their videos were going viral. I wanted to put out music that had soul, because that's what was missing.
I'm not a Barbie doll, I'm just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things.
I'm constantly trying to look at things from a different view and to put myself into some new perspectives to evolve myself, grow myself, and reinvent myself.
I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me.
I love a good old-school reggaeton song.
I don't really use any face products anymore because they make me break out. I like natural remedies. I usually put honey on my face. Sometimes, I put sugar in it so it's an exfoliant, too. I add raw coconut oil, which is good as a face wash and a moisturizer.
Some of my writing is very subconscious, and that's definitely what happened with 'Body Language' - I looped some basic bossa nova sounds and just started singing.
I think everybody needs to be more empathetic.
I just know what I want for myself.
My favourite 'stage' of Shakira was the brunette punk rock one, but she'll always have a special place in my heart, whatever she's doing.
I've always considered myself a person of color.
The constant pressure to be the perfect, ideal female - there's no such thing.
It's really natural for me to write bilingually.
My sun and my moon signs are mostly Cancer - it's really strong. We're deeply intuitive and sentimental. I really like to take care of people, nurturing them. I'm very passionate about the things I do and like to see people I love grow.
Do you. Wear what you want to wear. Be an individual. Be unique and live your best life.
Back in the day, I used to get really upset when people used to say that I didn't really make all my own things - like my art or my videos or whatever. I work really hard on everything, so it used to upset me when people would try to discredit me or say that I wouldn't have what I had without this person or that person.
The people, the culture... there's so much magic in Colombia, so I feel like being a kid, being able to have that, being able to also call Colombia my home, it was such an important part of my introduction as an artist, too, because it's such a big part of my life as a human being.
If my life is a movie - in the movie, there's always the bad part. There's also the parts where you're down and out, and there are parts where everything's amazing.
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