Nadia Ali Quotes & Sayings

I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand out from the rest of the entertainers out there. Again, being from such an ethnically diverse place like New York, you get comfortable and confident with being different! — Nadia Ali

Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance the night away to electronic music. — Nadia Ali

I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down. — Nadia Ali

I believe the most attractive thing about a guy is his personality and the way he views the world. I'm not into bad boys. I like the sweet sometimes even shy guys. — Nadia Ali

I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software. — Nadia Ali

As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am. — Nadia Ali

Personal relationships are usually my biggest inspirations for writing my songs. The best way for me to write a song is to visualise the story in my head, and I start humming a melody, and before you know it, a song is born. — Nadia Ali

I love the Middle East and have been lucky enough to visit a few of the countries like Egypt, Lebanon, Jordon and the U.A.E. — Nadia Ali

The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts. — Nadia Ali

I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music. — Nadia Ali

I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you love shoes. So, for me, I think it's a really dangerous thing to say I'm going to write the best dance song in the world. — Nadia Ali

Come around, feel the sound. Know you make my heart pound. Fill me up, bring me down; when I hear your sound. — Nadia Ali

I think I've always wanted to be different from everybody else. I get really annoyed when I do something and everybody else does it too, or if I'm doing something that everybody else is doing. — Nadia Ali