Sade Adu Quotes

Helen Folasade Adu known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade (shah-DAY), is a British singer, songwriter, and actress, known as the lead singer of her eponymous band. Born in Ibadan, Nigeria, but brought up in Essex, England, Sade gained modest recognition as a fashion designer and part-time model, prior to joining the band Pride in the early 1980s. ...more

Birth: January 16, 1959

I just aspire to pick people up. That’s my ambition.

Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.

Topic(s): Littles , Stories , My Friends

My musical career was an accident.

Topic(s): Careers , Musical , Accidents

I look a lot like my father and his mother.

Topic(s): Looks , Mother , Father

I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I’m not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.

Topic(s): Feels , Records , Sake

I think you only really feel like an outsider if you’ve been an insider.

Topic(s): Thinking , Ifs , Feels

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

Topic(s): Difficult , Class

When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.

Topic(s): Emotion , Studios

I’m not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

Topic(s): People , Journalist , Shy

I don’t get easily bored. I’m not that kind of person.

Topic(s): Kind , Persons , Bored

Move in space with minimum waste and maximum joy.

Topic(s): Inspirational , Moving , Joy

I’ve got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.

Topic(s): Real , Perception

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