Top 27 Quotes & Sayings by Netta Barzilai

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Israeli singer Netta Barzilai.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Netta Barzilai, also known mononymously as Netta, is an Israeli singer-songwriter, musician and looping artist. After winning the fifth season of HaKokhav HaBa, she earned the right to represent her country at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. On 12 May 2018, she won the contest, held in Lisbon, Portugal, with her song "Toy", marking Israel's fourth win in the Eurovision Song Contest.

Israeli - Singer | Born: January 22, 1993

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I am a very poppy little girl. I wasn't allowed to be poppy at first because y'know in my mind, pop stars are thin and beautiful and light, and I've never felt beautiful, skinny and light.

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I work with an amazing team - I have a stylist and a hairdresser and make-up artist who are always wondering what I am going to do next!

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When I was about 10 years old, the 'Ricki Lake show' aired in Israel, and it was the first time I was exposed to American reality culture.

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I want to empower and love, to be empowered and empower others. Because when we send out good energy, it comes back at us and makes the world a better place.

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For years I would sit on the side when my friends swam in the water. There is no feeling worse than that, to be afraid of what people will say about you, or to be embarrassed by who you are and what you are.

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I know when I was a kid I saw only one color of beauty, I saw only one kind in all the billboards and all magazines and the video clips. One kind and it was so frustrating.

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As you can see me, genetically, my brothers and I are all kind of the same. We all have this chubby little appearance and we all have a sweet tooth, so our mother really tried her best to forbid this kind of stuff in our house.

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I made 'Ricki Lake' as a big love show for the American culture: big jars of mayo and ketchup and industrial stuff and capitalism, which I celebrate, because I believe that the criticism comes with love.

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I don't sing beautifully or grandly or in a very 'moving' way. I am me - which is not very beautiful at times, and not very organised or regular.

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I started with soul music and icons like Aretha Franklin and Etta James and then moved to R&B and artists such as Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill. Electronic music came later on, when I was in high school and I was really influenced by artists like Skrillex and Major Lazer.

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It's amazing to see how if we don't open our minds to something different, we wont evolve as a species.

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I didn't plan to go to Eurovision and I didn't plan on winning. I was a struggling musician, hoping for a couple of gigs.

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Tell me where to sing to solve the world's problems and I'll go.

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I was told all my life to sing like Aretha Franklin, or Adele, cover myself with black clothing and show more soul, sing bigger.

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I wanted to do pop music, and I wanted to dance. I wanted all this because that was me. This is my inner performer, that is what it wants, this is what my heart wants.

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Israel is incredible, it throws the best party ever and people should come.

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My presence and my voice on stage, it sends a clear message that you can do whatever you want in your life, break barriers, stigmas - be the new standard.

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I worked as a barista and a kindergarten teacher. I really love kids and enjoyed every minute of being in a kindergarten.

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I believed what people said, that I don't deserve to be a leader because of the way I look. That I don't deserve to be popular, that I don't deserve to be loved. I'm not intelligent.

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I was a big girl considering herself beautiful, which is in conservative Israel had never been seen.

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I see my music as a visual thing. When I'm on stage I am very expressive with my face and through my performance - kind of like an actress but not really, it just rises up from inside with the music.

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Do good to others, be good to yourselves.

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Fashion is a great love of mine. I'm used to looking really hard for clothes that I like and I am really fortunate to have an amazing team of talented artists who work day and night with me to create our visions and make them come alive.

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I like to mix things up and I take inspiration from many different art forms.

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I knew nothing about Eurovision.

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I've been doing a lot of internet performances... it's really weird for me to not feel the crowd, to not feel the people in front of me.

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I tried to get a job in music but was too unique to stand behind someone as a backing vocal or to sing in weddings.

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