I’m learning from them! Everyone says that, but it’s true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.
ERYKAH BADUI 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
More Erykah Badu Quotes
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Music and the music business are two different things.
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I’m pretty mutable as a human being, period – if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.
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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’m just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.
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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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I was born to make mistakes, I ain’t scared to take the weight.
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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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[Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.
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I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.
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He definitely does what a partner is supposed to do, that is, evolve you.
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