Top 36 Quotes & Sayings by Tones and I

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Toni Watson, known professionally as Tones and I, is an Australian singer, songwriter, and record producer. Her breakout single, "Dance Monkey", reached number one in over 30 countries, including Australia. In November 2019, it broke the ARIA record for the most weeks at number one on their singles chart by any artist with 16 weeks. By mid-January 2020, "Dance Monkey" had spent its 24th and final week at number one, beating Bing Crosby's all-time Australian record for his version of "White Christmas", which spent 22 weeks at the top in 1943. "Dance Monkey" was accredited 16× platinum by ARIA for shipments of over 1,120,000 units, by mid-2021.

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Sometimes I don't think that I'm the most relatable female artist.

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Thank you to Australia for letting me know that I'm OK just the way that I am.

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I'm scared of being a one-hit wonder because my second single has set the bar too high.

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When I was busking, when I was paying for petrol with silver coins or when I was sneaking into hostels so I could park my van up and sleep in it, I had the best time of my life.

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I didn't even think my music was good enough to get on the radio in Australia.

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Now I am at the point people are believing in my music, I couldn't live with myself if I didn't talk about what I believe in.

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Dance Monkey' showed me that I'm good enough.

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The radio doesn't want to play you until you're No.1 on Shazam, and you can't get No.1 on Shazam without getting played.

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One day I was at the park with my family, all my cousins and stuff, in Frankston... We were all just singing a song and my aunty was like 'oh guys, she can actually hold a note.' I think that's the earliest memory of someone actually pointing me out as someone that has an ability to sing. I was probably like 7 years old.

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Streaming services are very important.

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The pre-chorus always flows and the chorus is always a little bit harder for me because I put pressure on myself. I didn't know that there was a proper way to do these things, so I just write what sounds good to me in my ears and then I hope to God that someone else likes it too.

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Usually I get inspired by singles and not artists, but I love Macklemore.

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I worked in retail for a bit and then I busked for two years. As soon as I started, I thought, 'I'll do busking until I'm 50 because this is the best job in the world.'

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I want to play the Super Bowl halftime show in America.

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I was getting a little bit bullied by guys who thought I was taking their customers, and it got to the point where I was anxious every time I set up my keyboard.

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No one could have ever prepared me for the whole world judging me and comparing me to other artists.

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Dance Monkey' is about the bad side of busking.

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No one could have ever prepared me for the whole world judging me and comparing to other artists. But what's most important is that you have to be a good person and care about others and carry yourself well.

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I have confidence in the songs that I've written and I'm not going to change anything.

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I am being savagely bullied online.

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I've always sung in the shower and I watched a lot of 'Rage' when I was young.

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Well, the first Australian tour I literally just took busking to the stage.

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I don't want to focus too much on trying to write a song for radio.

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I was living in my van, playing on the street for almost two years.

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I didn't think I had a weird voice until everyone started saying I did.

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I'm just going to keep trying to write music for me because that's what got me here.

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There was a lot of times when I was busking there were a lot of people in your face, like 'More, more! Go again, again, again!'... People were so used to be able to swipe to see something different to entertain themselves that the patience had diminished.

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I thought the world of live performance and busking was where I was going to thrive. I had no idea that digital streaming platforms and radio and that world would be for me, you know?

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People were trying to write songs to knock Lil Nas X off his perch; I didn't try to do that.

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Just because my song was being played on the radio didn't mean I had a load of money. You don't get royalties overnight.

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I'm just going to do what I do and be who I am.

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I'm not into makeup or dresses or typically girly things. But to me, those things don't really define what it is to be a female artist in this industry any more. It's being brave and courageous and true to yourself.

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People like me for who I am, I don't wanna change that, if anything I just wanna hone my craft and get better at it.

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There is no necessity in this world that requires you to have an absurd amount of money.

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People think you should be happy all the time but you can't.

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