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Jade Bird Quotes
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Jade Bird
English
Musician
Born:
Oct 1
,
1997
Always
Me
Music
Myself
People
You
There’s not point in doing anything without conviction.
Jade Bird
Conviction
Point
Without
Doing
Anything
No artist is one-dimensional. I get the sense that if I push myself now and if I create a million different-sounding songs - I just feel that’s going to be such a set-up for my ability in the future.
Jade Bird
Future
Myself
Sense
One-Dimensional
Ability
Push
Songs
Feel
Get
Artist
Going
Just
Create
Now
Million
I want to start thinking about other people and the political climate. I can’t sit here and write an album about myself. It just feels wrong.
Jade Bird
Myself
People
Political
Sit
Thinking
Other
About
Write
Wrong
Feels
Climate
Political Climate
Just
Want
Start
Here
Album
People like to associate you with hard times and I pride myself on coming through them more than experiencing them.
Jade Bird
Myself
You
People
Pride
More
Through
Like
Coming
Times
Than
Experiencing
Them
Hard
Hard Times
Associate
My grandparents divorced, both of them, and then my mum and dad did. So it’s like, divorce, divorce, divorce.
Jade Bird
Both
Divorce
Divorced
Like
Did
Them
Then
Grandparents
Dad
Mum
Mum And Dad
I’ve been surrounded by incredibly strong women: incredibly, unapologetically strong women, and I guess that for me has just been the biggest inspiration.
Jade Bird
Me
Women
Strong
Incredibly
Guess
Strong Women
Inspiration
Been
Surrounded
Just
Biggest
Songwriters such as Alanis Morissette write about the constant balance of contradictions, and that’s something I adhere to in my life and work.
Jade Bird
Life
Work
Balance
My Life
Adhere
Constant
About
Something
Write
Songwriters
Contradictions
I write great songs and the mistakes make them even better. No one else could write a Morrissey song.
Jade Bird
Great
Song
Better
Mistakes
Else
I Write
Could
Write
No-One
Songs
Great Songs
Make
Them
Even
I always say the diversity, and culture is the one thing I love the most about the U.S. How you can travel across one borderline and you end up with this whole new set of people that I find super-interesting and great on tour.
Jade Bird
Love
Great
You
Travel
Culture
People
Diversity
Say
I Love
One Thing
Borderline
Find
About
Tour
New
Most
Always
How
End
Up
The One Thing
Across
Whole
Thing
Set
I am a bit of a granny, I feel older than my years. I like to read rather than go to parties but at the same time my band and I have a lot of fun on tour and can be big kids.
Jade Bird
Time
I Am
Big
Band
Older
Bit
Kids
I Feel
Rather
Tour
Feel
Like
Parties
Read
Am
Go
Years
Lot
Than
Same
Same Time
Granny
Fun
I work a lot on words, so if I hear a word or see a word or a phrase or a sentence that someone says to me it just immediately sparks a concept.
Jade Bird
Work
Me
Words
Word
Immediately
Says
Phrase
See
Someone
Concept
Hear
Lot
Just
Sentence
Sparks
Connecting with fans online can be the make or break or some artists, and I think that’s a bit dangerous.
Jade Bird
Dangerous
Fans
Think
I Think
Bit
Some
Online
Make
Artists
Break
Connecting
I write 100% of my material by myself. That’s really important to me because I don’t want what I’m trying to say to be diluted by anyone that might not know my circumstance or who I am as a person.
Jade Bird
Myself
Me
I Am
Important
Say
Diluted
Circumstance
I Write
Write
Know
Because
Material
Am
Person
Trying
Want
Anyone
Might
Really
Who
My focus on everything is songwriting, so I write all of my stuff by myself.
Jade Bird
Myself
Focus
Everything
I Write
Write
Songwriting
Stuff
I think with how society makes me feel like I should grasp onto the inner strength of me being a woman, and I felt like it was all just very much married into what I’m listening to, what I’m writing, how I’m feeling.
Jade Bird
Strength
Me
Woman
Writing
Listening
Feeling
Think
Society
I Think
Married
Onto
Feel
Like
Felt
Makes
How
Very
Just
Being
Much
Should
Grasp
Inner
Inner Strength
I’d been gigging since I was 14, doing little competitions and pubs and clubs and old people’s homes.
Jade Bird
Old
Since
Doing
Been
Clubs
Little
Homes
Pubs
Competitions
I’d gig three to five times a week while I was doing my A-levels. I’d always come in with a runny nose ’cause I was always ill and run-down. But I just pushed through.
Jade Bird
Cause
Three
Gig
Week
Through
Pushed
Come
Always
Doing
Five
Times
Just
Nose
While
Ill
I’ve always been into music. My mom and dad used to always play music in the house.
Jade Bird
Music
Mom
House
Always
Been
Used
Mom And Dad
Dad
Play
Play Music
I listen to a lot of artists like Tori Amos, Cherry Glazerr, and Patti Smith, and I kind of wanted to follow in their footsteps, or at least try to be that genre-defining.
Jade Bird
Try
Kind
Follow
Footsteps
Like
Smith
Least
Cherry
Lot
Listen
Artists
Wanted
Patti Smith
Every time people try and define me, it gets battered around. I like to keep people guessing.
Jade Bird
Time
Me
People
Try
Every
Every Time
Guessing
Define
Battered
Like
Around
Time People
Gets
Keep
I always try to be myself, be it a festival crowd or my own crowd.
Jade Bird
Myself
Try
Own
My Own
Crowd
Always
Festival
No one ever wants to be the girl that got her relationship wrong again, but if you let your cynicism take over you risk never falling in love.
Jade Bird
Love
Relationship
You
Girl
Risk
Take
Never
No-One
Wrong
Over
Got
Falling
Falling In Love
Wants
Again
Your
Cynicism
Ever
Her
But when I was 12 or 13, I found the acoustic guitar and got into guitar music ultimately, like Black Motorcycle Club, obviously Neil Young, Crosby, Stills and Nash.
Jade Bird
Music
Motorcycle
Guitar
Black
Young
Club
Neil
Neil Young
Crosby
Like
Obviously
Got
Ultimately
Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar
Found
I don’t really get inspired by landscapes that much, it’s all people.
Jade Bird
People
All People
Inspired
Get
Much
Really
Landscapes
I never expected I was going to travel the world playing gigs with my band and best friends. I have surpassed any dreams I had.
Jade Bird
Dreams
Best
Travel
World
Band
Gigs
Never
Had
Friends
Expected
Any
Going
Playing