Top 100 Quotes About Erykah Badu
#1. As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.
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#2. I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.
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#3. Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.
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#4. I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.
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#5. I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.
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#6. Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.
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#7. I know the community mostly for its art and culture ... and of course its food, I eat at their restaurants." "They make you feel like taking off your shoes ... it feels like home.
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#8. When you're performing, you're creating a moment.
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#9. The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good on the inside.
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#10. I don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.
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#11. I trust the political system to be what it is. It's a structure to keep the country running, a boat to get us [citizens] from one side to the other, and it has the country's best interests at heart. Not the people's.
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#12. When it come to da: " What it do?! I don't fall for da: "Woop- TeE- WoOoo!
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#13. Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.
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#14. I love watching Rihanna in fashion. I like to see her take chances and risks. I like seeing Naomi Campbell in the forefront. They're both women who stand out and use their bodies as canvases to introduce this functional art to the world. They carry it in a way that is very inspiring.
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#15. I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
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#16. My style is a little masculine, and what I loved about Pyer Moss was how well he can make a blazer, the looseness of those pants, or color palette that he chooses from season to season.
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#17. We're all friends, inside the music and outside the music. I mean, we don't sound anything alike, we don't approach our music anything alike, but we come from the same genuine place. We want our music to be real and we don't want to compromise our art.
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#18. Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.
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#19. They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I grew to understand very early that a lot of these people who are in nursing homes are elderly and don't have a lot of things that give them joy from day to day.
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#20. I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.
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#21. Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you
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#22. When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.
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#23. I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.
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#24. Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.
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#25. What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.
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#26. I know that I want to concentrate more on my inside-pretty than my outside-pretty, because thats gonna go away. But if your inside is beautiful, it never wears away. The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good inside.
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#27. My hair is an aesthetic choice ... At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.
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#29. I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
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#30. My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that I can communicate with the voice of this generation.
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#31. Music and the music business are two different things.
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#32. I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison.
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#33. I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.
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#34. I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink a lot of water. Have a wheatgrass shot. Drink some green juice. Eat as healthy as I can.
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#35. I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.
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#36. I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is.
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#37. The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.
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#38. I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
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#39. I mean thats a big part of our existence here on earth, the personal relationship we have with the person that we love, with the person that we make love to, with the person that we share our lives with. We expect a lot of things back from our loved one, and the lesson is to accept and not expect.
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#40. I view my hair and clothes as functional art ...
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#41. I have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where you need to be. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy, the places that your heart takes you. But continue to follow it. Where the train leads you - you'll get there.
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#42. If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it.
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#43. I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.
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#44. Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.
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#45. What a frequency What a voice. I love Bilal. I couldn't imagine a music world without his voice.
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#46. I'm only in competition with my last level.
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#47. I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.
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#48. I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.
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#49. What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I've worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.
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#50. What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.
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#52. I live in a queendom, ruled by a womb-iverse,
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#53. I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it - in science - sympathetic vibrations.
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#54. A home birth is about being able to create exactly what you want, because it's such a violent moment inside of the body that you want everything else to be as beautiful as it can be.
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#55. I love putting the music together. It's like art.
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#56. I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.
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#57. My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables,
It don't have nothing to do with your new friend
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#58. Following your heart also means eliminating the things that no longer evolve you.
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#59. I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen.
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#60. I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time.
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#61. Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.
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#62. Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.
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#63. I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.
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#64. I don't plan how many people I work with. I don't charge anything. It's for my own learning, and I just enjoy being the welcoming committee. I became a doula by default.
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#65. If we were made in his image then call us by our names.
Most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us just the same
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#66. I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want, so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally.
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#67. Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.
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#68. He definitely does what a partner is supposed to do, that is, evolve you.
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#69. I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.
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#71. So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible.
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#72. There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.
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#73. When I get ready to do an album, that means I have something to say for the sake of words, and I listen back to all of the things I've been creating and pull things from out of the air to go with them. It's almost like I start creating the album before I even think about creating it.
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#74. We were all born, and we all came to the music business with everything we had. Some of us just don't get a chance. Now there's a lot of other people like myself, indeed, who are getting heard worldwide. That gives other artists a chance.
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#75. I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.
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#76. Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk ... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.
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#77. I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.
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#78. The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
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#79. Now keep in mind that I'm an artist and I'm sensitive about my sh*t
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#80. Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And, to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure.
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#81. Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.
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#82. This pain to remain the same outweigh the pain to change ... When you get tired enough is when you begin to want to sacrifice everything inside of you - the fear just leaves
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#83. I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak.
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#84. What opens my heart is when my son wakes me up in the morning, nudging me and saying, 'Mommy, mommy!'
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#85. [The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck.
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#86. What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.
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#87. I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist.
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#88. It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.
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#89. What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.
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#90. My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.
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#91. I'm just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.
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#92. The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.
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#93. Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.
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#94. I'm more like an oven than a microwave,
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#95. I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned, raised and developed by America; I am America. And as it changes, my thoughts also change. Because no matter what I believe, what the powers-that-be believe will affect me.
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#96. We literally just finished making this gown 20 minutes ago. I love it. It's my favorite color.
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#97. Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.
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#98. If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.
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#99. During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.
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#100. Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy.
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