Meshell Ndegeocello Quotes
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Our leaders and Osama Bin Laden all claim to do the right thing in the name of God. I question that. I wonder if that God is worth the life of another human-being.
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I'm really good at melodic and sonic things, but I don't really think I have anything to say. But I really enjoy the puzzle-making of taking words and adding a melody to them.
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It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.
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There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?
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It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.
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The blowing thing is something that you either have a predilection for or not. And I don't have that thing. It was just unsanitary. I couldn't do it. I am a complete germaphobe.
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We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.
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I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.
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Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”
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No one knows anything for sure.
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Madonna is interesting. She changed music. She definitely did. She gave me an opportunity that no one else would give me, so I am very grateful to her.
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I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.
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Your yes means nothing if you can't say no.
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I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.
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I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.
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Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun.
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Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.
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You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.
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I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.
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I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ease with themselves.
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I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like “Midnight in Paris.” Nostalgia isn’t so enticing.
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I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!
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My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him.
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My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.
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It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.
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Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.
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Definitely dub is in my body forever. I think I hear everything through a dub filter. Even when I play rock music, I play through a dub filter.
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I tried to be as positive as possible, because I have the same birthday as Michael Jackson. He is my cosmic brother. I love him.
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I feel that musicians are in a fellowship, and that fellowship is a responsibility.
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Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.
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