Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Lisa Stansfield
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
It's always been the same from a long time ago, it's people with promises and people dangling carrots and when you're young and impressionable, and ambitious, you want to believe them. I was always lucky because there was always part of me that didn't believe these people.
Deeper' feels like we did when we made the first few albums. It's got that excitement. It felt like a voyage of discovery.
There was a period in music that didn't suit what I did. I didn't fit in.
I feel so comfortable and at home in the studio.
I'd like to have more tolerance.
I do really good banana bread. And I make a chocolate cake with fudge icing that's bloody delicious.
I do admire a lot of artists now who are completely multi-faceted - they're doing seven different jobs all at once and it doesn't seem to faze them whatsoever. It just astonishes me completely and I have nothing but admiration for them.
I like to tinkle at my piano when I'm working out a new song - I just put my fingers down and see what comes out.
There are lots of artists I respect and admire.
I used to hate touring, I used to absolutely hate it! I think one of the reasons why was because in between songs I found it difficult to talk to the audience, and now I don't care, I say what I want!
It's like, if someone asks me to do something and it seems like a really exciting project, but I maybe really frightened about it, nine times out of then I'll say yes imminently because then I can worry after I've said yes!
I think women were just accepted more as songwriters when they sat on a stool with a guitar and had scruffy hair. It was quite insulting really, because it was like saying that if you're pretty and slim and glamorous there's no way anything could be going on between your ears, you just like doing your makeup.
To me to singing is like a freedom. It's a very therapeutic thing. It's incredible. I can just lose myself. It's sort of like meditation.
I know I idolise someone like Billie Holiday, but I don't look at her and think I have to imitate her lifestyle, to try and sing like she did.
Whenever I've collaborated with anyone in the past it's just happened really, I've never actively sought it out.
My bed is my weird little haven. It's like a deflated tent.
I've always been very emotional when I sing.
People compliment me and if I ignore them, it doesn't mean I'm rude. It just means I'm embarrassed.
I started to sing professionally when I was about 13 or 14.
You know that something is good but you never really know how good. You always underestimate how much of an impact something is going to have.
You have to say no to a lot of people and when a lot of people are telling you what you're doing is a bit rubbish you just have to have the courage to say 'no it isn't' and believe in it.
Singers like Gladys Knight are mostly responsible for how I learned to sing.
The Manchester music scene was very male dominated.
Probably because the first two albums were so successful, we got a little bit smug.
That's a part of human nature that men and women, women and women, whatever your sexuality, you flirt with each other and it's completely harmless and it doesn't really mean it crosses a line... You can tell where it is.
I did work incredibly hard but I think there's a certain element of luck.
You can make a whole album on your telephone, you can make an amazing video too!
A really happy kid. I would go off on my own a lot and live in my imagination. When I got my school report back it always said, 'Lisa should try a little harder because she always seems to be in a different world from everyone else.'
Some women can go 12 cycles of IVF and not have a problem. They love babies. They want to have a baby - it's all encompassing. I did it just three times and then I was out. I realised that I didn't want a child.
In Europe, I do see a lot of women who were fans years ago bring their daughters and sons to shows and that's how my music gets passed down, and I love that.
I like to keep everyone happy. I feel like it's my responsibility to do that.
The first writers I knew about were Motown's Holland-Dozier-Holland.
I knew I'd made it when I was sitting on the bus into Rochdale and there was an old man listening to one of my songs. It was fantastic.
I don't watch 'The X Factor,' I don't watch 'The Voice,' so I wouldn't want to do them.
It's quite amazing how obsessed everyone is by 'Strictly Come Dancing.' I don't watch it so I don't know anything about it.
I'm a singer. I'm a musician. I'm a writer. Maybe - I don't know - I couldn't give a child what it needed.
That was one thing about my life and everything I've done really, it's like I've been on a diving board scared out of my life and someone just keeps pushing me!
I was probably about four when I really wanted to start singing.
Fame made me insecure and insular. I wanted to run away from being me.
My mum used to listen to Motown. Diana Ross was my first singing teacher, really. I'd just sing along all the time.
I absolutely loved it in Ireland.
People thought I disappeared, but I never went away. Music has always been a priority.
I gave up everything and nearly became a farmer, walking around in headscarf and wellies for 10 years to find my confidence again.
I'm a bit of a loose cannon, but it keeps everyone on their toes!
For a sore throat I take arnica, just a tiny pill dissolved under my tongue. And because your throat is like a muscle, I keep mine warm drinking herbal teas, usually camomile.
People say to me about my music 'it got me through college, it saved my marriage, it helped me to come out.' It's wonderful to be part of someone's life in a big way.'
I don't want to do something just to be on TV. If I did I might as well just go on and put a meat pie on my head! If I go on TV I want to be doing something I want to do.
Falling in love is an absolutely beautiful thing to go through, and why people shouldn't talk about it is beyond me.
I've always been political but I don't like to bring it into my work any more because I think it limits me.
The fame thing made me run - it got out of hand and I needed to go away.
Let's face it, I have a fun job at the end of the day.
I didn't want to be famous, I just wanted to sing.
You can't have artistic freedom if you have to think about seven different aspects of your own job all the time. It must be very, very exhausting.
I really don't have an interest in it and people think I'm a freak because I'm not obsessed by 'Strictly Come Dancing' but it just doesn't appeal to me. I'm really sorry but I can't get into it. You get treated like a complete pariah if you don't like things like that!
When all my friends were into punk, I'd be singing versions of soul ballads. I thought, 'Oh my God, I don't want them to know I'm doing this.' But I really enjoyed singing those songs.
Working class people vote Tory because they think it makes them look a bit posh.
When I make an album I love to spend a long time making it and put my heart and soul into it.
In terms of the production, the style I use is what I see as the 'Lisa Stansfield sound' and I would hope that when anyone puts on one of my songs they don't even have to listen to my voice to know this is a Lisa Stansfield song, because of the way it sounds.
We never want to toe the line.
I'm not the sort of person who if everyone thinks you're fabulous you thrive on it.
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