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Nellie McKay Biography

Nell Marie McKay (born April 13, 1982) is a British-American singer-songwriter, actress, and former stand-up comedian, noted for her critically acclaimed albums, and for her Broadway debut in The Threepenny Opera (2006). Her music has showcased different genres, from jazz to rap and disco to funk.

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You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

Band, Ifs, Knows, Marching, Survive

In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer. Even though singers, particularly singers who can play piano. . . If you go to the office of career development, you can get a gig much easier. Still, musicians tend to look down on you. I think they've got some nerve, because if they could sing, they would do it, but most of them can't.

Brain, Gig, Instruments, Musicians, Office, Thinking

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

Art, Lasts, May, Trying, Worth

I was never pop-music taken seriously when I was taught. But some people who agree with you will like your music, and some who don't agree with you will like your music. I think that if you can approach things in a universal fashion and speak rationally about things, then most people do have similar intrinsic values. They don't - or at least they feel that they shouldn't - want other people to suffer. They want a good life for them and their own.

Fashion, Good Life, Taken, Taught, Things, Universal

As long as you have imagination, you never need to work. You never get bored. You could just walk around and go to museums and check out new movies. You could be busy in New York city for 10,000 years.

Bored, Busy, Imagination, Long, Museums

I think people at most record labels really like music, but it's hard because everything is so subjective, and everyone's so creative in their own right.

Creative, Hard, People, Record, Think, Thinking

I'm glad I got a record contract, because all of a sudden everything you were doing before that made you a stupid person now makes you a smart person.

Glad, Person, Smart, Stupid, Sudden

Less money for public media means less access to the arts.

Access, Art, Mean, Media, Public

Precocious and eccentric are okay. But I think that people in the arts represent something integral and kind of secretive in everybody else. So the reason people like some artists is because they're saying or doing something that they would like to do or say, but they don't have the balls or the means. People are really afraid to put their ass on the line. Just to put your face on a poster and put your name in big print and say "Come see me," that takes some cojones, you know? Ambition is nothing to be ashamed of.

Ambition, Art, Ashamed, Kind, Mean, Reason

You can criticize something you strive for, and you can avoid something you dream about.

Criticize, Dream, Strive

What people generally tell you is, "We'll all agree," and then once you sign, they expect to get their own way. I think it was a bit of a surprise that I was still very headstrong even after signing. I wasn't so happy to get a deal that I would agree to anything. In fact, I disagreed on most things and got my way on most things, which I think was to all of our benefit. But they wanted the record to come out, and I wanted the record to come out, so we had to work together.

Expect, Generally, People, Sign, Thinking, Working Together

I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up. It shows you aren't invisible. And it's better than being ignored, or kicked in the head, or worse.

Being Ignored, Head, Play, Shows, The End Of The Day, Worse

My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

Encouraged, Mom, Parent, Supportive

I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.

Care, Considering, Feminism, People

I'm getting offers for movie stuff. But it shows how facile the movie industry is. I mean, they don't know I can act. I guess they like my record and think I have a nice complexion? I don't know. How many people work and wait tables to get that break? I really don't feel entitled. Everything's so corrupt, you know? Especially the tastemakers. I trust the American public much more than the tastemakers.

Act, Corrupt, Mean, Nice, Thinking

I don't listen to much rap, really. I can rarely listen to a whole record of it, because musically, it's very formulaic, and oftentimes it doesn't have the best hooks on every track. I like my music to be very musical.

Like, Musical, Musically, Rap, Record, Track

If you're dissatisfied anywhere, New York is the place to be. If you're unhappy at college in Topeka, I don't know what there is to distract yourself with, you know? So anyway, I distracted myself until I decided that the distraction could be a school in and of itself.

College, Distract, Place, School, Unhappy

In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.

Brain, Considered, Hierarchy, Singer, Singers

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

Emotion, Fleeting, Life, Love, Love Is

I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.

Concentrating, Done, Focus, Kind

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