45 Notable Quotes By Nelly Furtado That Will Give You A Second Wind
Nelly Furtado is an eminent Canadian songwriter-singer who shot to fame with her debut album, ‘Whoa, Nelly!’ in 2000. The album was both commercially and critically a hit and won her a ‘Grammy Award’ in the ‘Best Female Pop Vocal Performance’ category. Her third album, ‘Loose,’ which was released in 2006, became her top-selling album with approximately twelve million copies sold across the globe. In 2009, she released her first Spanish album, ‘Mi Plan,’ and bagged a ‘Latin Grammy Award’ for the same. Following is a corpus of famous quotes and sayings by Nelly Furtado which have been excerpted from the vast sea of her songs, works, thoughts, interviews, public utterances, lyrics, writing, etc. Scroll through the compilation of quotes and thoughts by Nelly Furtado that will make you dance with joy.
I definitely believe that we really need to stop putting things in masculine and feminine boxes and realize that men and women both contain masculine and feminine energy.
I'm aware of - and embrace - my masculine energy. Sometimes I have too much yang.
I can't understand marketing. I think it's because I never looked at what I do as a job. I've rebelled against that and I will continue to.
Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.
I have a photograph of my grandfather driving a donkey cart barefoot.
I remember attaching a wire clothing hanger to the antenna of my radio in my bedroom, so I could get the frequency and get that station and listen to the top 10 every night.
Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.
I'm into cotton underwear. I don”t need cheetah print leather to make me feel sexy.
Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally. Guys don”t really care, they just want to get the clothes off.
Maneater -- make you work hard, make you spend hard, make you want all of her love.
I'm privileged that I'm an artist.
If we stepped away from so much of the victimhood talk, I think that would make a big change for the better. It does limit art. The conversation wouldn't just be one-sided.
I'm channelling my 14-year-old self. She's thinking about putting on her big hoop earrings and baggy pants and going to the mall downtown.
I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think every woman is different.
I say it's a girls' world.
I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip hop to trip hop, house, drum and bass, and experimental and improv and jazz.
Touring is a favorite part of what I do. I love connecting with the fans in that immediate way.
I finally feel content with my work. My fruit has started to ripen. I'm able to dissect emotion properly and distill it into a song that reverberates in a truthful place.
There are tears. There's laughter. There's an unconscious thing happening between us as humans. There's so much about the brain that we don't understand. I believe everybody's empathic.
I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away...
As an artist, comfort can be your worst enemy.
When you're too concerned about branding, you're restricting yourself.
I don't really believe in good and evil. I never had. I think it's enabled me to open my mind.
If you're spreading light, you don't care where the sunshine goes.
I think when you mature, you realize that you really don't have to do anything you don't want to do or be represented in a way that doesn't suit you.
I am impressed when music matters, when genres are broken, when spirits are lifted, when people make a difference, and when people are true to themselves.
Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.
Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring
You can have the best of intentions and think you're doing the right thing but you fall down when you're going against your own instinct.
We may look great on Instagram, but we're still lonely and depressed and anxiety-ridden. I hope, for the sake of our future generations, that our moral compass stays intact.
