Curated Quotations

Annie Lennox

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  • “Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.” -Annie Lennox

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  • “Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.” -Annie Lennox

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  • “As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.” -Annie Lennox

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  • “I’m appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture.” -Annie Lennox

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  • “I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.” -Annie Lennox

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  • “I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.” -Annie Lennox

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  • “Money is a good thing and it’s obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.” -Annie Lennox

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  • “We all fight over what the label ‘feminism’ means but for me it’s about empowerment. It’s not about being more powerful than men – it’s about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It’s about very basic things. It’s not a badge like a fashion item.” -Annie Lennox

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  • “Although I have lived in London, I have never really considered London my home because it was always going to be a stopping-off point for me, and it has been too.” -Annie Lennox

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  • “I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.” -Annie Lennox

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  • “The future hasn’t happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I’m in.” -Annie Lennox

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  • “I mean, I’m 48 years old and I’ve been through a lot in my life – you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations… We all have dreams.” -Annie Lennox

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  • “I mean, I’m 48 years old and I’ve been through a lot in my life – you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations… We all have dreams.” -Annie Lennox

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  • “I don’t have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.” -Annie Lennox

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  • “The future hasn’t happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I’m in.” -Annie Lennox

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  • “When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty – they were coming from a universal and personal place.” -Annie Lennox

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  • “For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn’t the art of photography but I don’t agree.” -Annie Lennox

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  • Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you’re very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few…

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