Top 64 Janelle Monae Quotes

#1. Part of what my music represents is to stand up and be the voice of those who feel like they are not heard and want to be treated with respect regardless of race, color, orientation - android, cyborg, whatever.

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#2. Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.

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#3. I will not be a slave to my image, nor will I be a slave to anyone else's interpretations of me,

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#4. People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.

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#5. I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.

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#6. Children go with whatever makes them feel good - like if that's the color green or orange, they do that with their clothes. As I've grown older, everything reversed. My music, my personality - onstage those things became my colors.

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#7. I love great music and if it doesn't move me I don't listen to it.

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#8. I've cried over string arrangements.

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#9. Bring wings to the weak and bring grace to the strong
May all evil stumble as it flies in the world
All the tribes comes and the mighty will crumble
We must brave this night and have faith in love

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#10. Things might not go as planned, but at the end of the day it's up to me to take the risks and do what I love most. And I don't owe anybody an explanation. My journey is my journey.

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#11. I feel like Harriet Tubman, except I am trying to free people through underground music, to free themselves creatively and inspirationally.

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#12. I'm a believer that the more I'm giving, the happier I am, and the more beautiful my exterior will be.

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#13. Becoming a CoverGirl is truly an honor and a gift. It opens up a new platform for me to inspire women to feel stronger, braver and more beautiful inside and out.

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#14. I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.

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#15. I'm not a politician; I'm an artist.

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#16. I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.

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#17. We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist, I want to open doors for young black girls.

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#18. I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.

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#19. I wanna scream and dream and throw a love parade / Is that okay?

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#20. I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.

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#21. I'll refer to my music in color, like 'This song needs to be bright red.'

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#22. My message is that I want to reach the people - the people who work each and every day.

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#23. I won't sit here and say I've never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables and fish. And I think stress plays a huge part too.

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#24. I love the mystery behind things.

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#25. I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.

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#26. It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default.

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#27. Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.

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#28. I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.

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#29. Android is a new form of the other, but you can parallel the other to so many different types of people. Even if you don't consider yourself to be the other, at one point in time I'm sure you felt like that.

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#30. People don't ask Jay-Z to take his shirt off when he rhymes,

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#31. Don't get high off praises, and don't get too low on critiques.

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#32. Even if it makes others comfortable, I will LOVE who I am

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#33. I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.

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#34. Beauty is about enhancing what you have. Let yourself shine through.

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#35. It's a big universe. To stay in one tiny place is doing a disservice to yourself.

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#36. One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.

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#37. You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.

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#38. The colors black and white are my uniform, to honor the working class. People like my parents, who were janitors and had to wear a uniform every day. It keeps me grounded.

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#39. I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing ... creating ... it's in my DNA.

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#40. Once you find what you like, it's like it worked yesterday, it works today, it'll work tomorrow.

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#41. You cannot police me, so get off my areola

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#42. I know what I like; if you go to my closet, I have at least four of everything.

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#43. I have not lost any of my crazy, fearless, raw, soulful, eclectic side and I plan on continuing to tell universal stories in an unforgettable way.

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#44. Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. i didn't have to become perfect because I've learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.

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#45. I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

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#46. Honestly, I don't believe in menswear. I focus on what pieces are most timeless, transcendent, match my lifestyle, remain remarkable, and command intriguing attention across the room at an art gallery.

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#47. I'm inspired by the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll.'

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#48. Redefine what it means to be sexy and what it means to be a woman. Showing my skin is not what makes me sexy. I like skirts and dresses just like everyone else, but I had a message I needed to put out there. It was up to me to show people and young girls there was another way.

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#49. There are months when I'm on a plane every day!

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#50. I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's another way.

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#51. I don't do a lot of collaborations that I don't believe in. Actually, I don't do any collaborations that I don't believe in.

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#52. Perfection is often the enemy of greatness

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#53. Silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon.

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#54. I take goldenseal, Echinacea and cod liver oil when flying to boost my immune system.

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#55. I think if people genuinely want to help ... that'll shine through, no matter what color or what race. We cannot see race before compassion.

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#56. Everything is about balance. You can't work, work, work, work without any play.

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#57. I was made to believe there's something wrong with me,

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#58. It's hard for me to be serious. I can't really rub oil on me and go all the way with it [laughs]. I hear some screams and I laugh to myself. I always get a kick out of it. I'm three feet tall, basically.

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#59. I want people to know about these visionary artists. I want people to know what they stand for and (that) they are representing something unique, something fresh. I am just so excited about their careers.

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#60. When you realize it's your responsibility to be a leader and create the world that you want to see, you have to do it.

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#61. I love Fun. They're great guys. They're incredible artists and musicians.

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#62. When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

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#63. When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.

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#64. First, before I'm an artist, before I'm a celebrity, I'm a human being.

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