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Erykah Badu  Quotes
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...

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Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness.

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I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

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And I figured out that the reason I couldn’t get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for...

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I love being an entertainer – not really fond of being a celebrity.

—Erykah Badu

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From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I’m supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That’s my world. I love it. I...

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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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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

—Erykah Badu

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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...

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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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I love putting the music together. It’s like art.

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Music and the music business are two different things.

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I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

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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.

—Erykah Badu

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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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I don’t feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never...

—Erykah Badu

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I’m a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

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When you’re in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

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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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I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn’t conform.

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I’m a Pisces, so I’m a very closed-book kind of person.

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The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

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I’m kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.

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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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I’m a performance artist first; I’m a recording artist second.

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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...

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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.

—Erykah Badu

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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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I’ve had two children. I’ve had three boyfriends. I’ve had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.

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Honey isn’t really that good for you.

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I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 19.

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There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.

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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...

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I try to be honest and I keep moving.

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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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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.

—Erykah Badu

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No one chooses to raise children alone.

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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...

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Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That’s what I want to do.

—Erykah Badu

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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...

—Erykah Badu

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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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I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

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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...

—Erykah Badu

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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...

—Erykah Badu

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But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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I don’t sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that’s what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and...

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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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