Top 29 Quotes & Sayings by Lisa Lopes

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Lisa Lopes.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Lisa Lopes

Lisa Nicole Lopes, better known by her stage name Left Eye, was an American rapper and singer. She was a member of the R&B girl group TLC, alongside Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas. Besides rapping and singing backing vocals on TLC recordings, Lopes was one of the creative forces behind the group, receiving more co-writing credits than the other members. She also designed the outfits and staging for the group and contributed to the group's image, album titles, artworks, and music videos. Through her work with TLC, Lopes won four Grammy Awards.

Everything that we know in the business we've had to learn from mistakes. No one sat us down and taught us or even said, 'Go pick up this book and learn for yourself.' We trusted people.
We try to teach women how to be strong, how to believe in themselves, how to make themselves happy, as opposed to pleasing someone else first.
Let it be understood that I am interested in making multimillion-dollar business deals. — © Lisa Lopes
Let it be understood that I am interested in making multimillion-dollar business deals.
Girls groups tend to break up more because sometimes it's hard for women to get along. And everybody is like, 'They're breaking up over silly stuff.' That's not the silly thing to me - to break up. The silly part is that you couldn't get back together. It's about working out, because everyone has their differences.
The truth is, women don't stand up, they're too hushed, they don't like to say stuff.
I always felt like, well, if TLC doesn't do good, it's because of our own recognizance.
In any business, you get your numbers together before you go out and do the work.
Now we know that, the way contracts are set up, it's not really made for artists to get rich from selling records - that's the company's one shot to make money.
We didn't know we might become role models but it's good that we did because if you're put in a position like this, you should try to make a difference because a lot of kids today don't have role models.
I hope we go down in history for being something more than just another famous act that got ripped off.
We did want to stand for something, not just cute girls with cute concepts. Everything we talk about has meaning behind it.
You know I've been called crazy.
There are plenty of groups that have come out and did whatever they did and have broken up. Especially girls groups.
When we were first recording, I was wearing a bag on my head.
This is a cutthroat business full of greedy individuals who take advantage of naive young artists.
We're not hard-core feminists. We like men and we like to have fun with them. But we also want men to think about females in different ways.
Kids listen to performers and we have a duty to give them certain critical information.
As long as we're great at what we do, we'll be accepted.
When we just hang around, our pants are always sagging.
Whether it's positive or negative press, it's all good. I do understand the game.
I just want credit for my ideas, because I am the creative force behind TLC.
The magic of the group has everything to do with the chemistry between myself, Tionne and Chilli. With TLC, it's like, if there wasn't something going wrong, it just wouldn't be right.
Too many kids think condoms are nasty and vulgar, instead of as something that can save your life. — © Lisa Lopes
Too many kids think condoms are nasty and vulgar, instead of as something that can save your life.
Every time I got drunk, this girl named Nikki would show up. When I got drunk, I was just a different person. This is a totally different person than Lisa. When these two started to battle it out, I had to create a third person to come in and straighten the two of them out. Nina, my evil twin who came from within, who I blame my sins on. (satanic alter) All the problems I did have stemmed from what I was doing - I was creating all these different personalities.
If I don't love myself, I won't survive.
Energy never dies. It just transforms.
There's a thin line between genius and insanity - and I always get labelled as being the crazy one.
I see the invisible spirits, where demons still find it livable. I need a hug to hold my soul inside my body.
Nothing could be more natural to me than writing music.
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