In music, it makes for a good platform to take time and really mold a piece the way I need to mold it. When it comes to fashion, I create a functional art that moves.
ERYKAH BADU[Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.
More Erykah Badu Quotes
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I view my hair and clothes as functional art.
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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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I was born to make mistakes, I ain’t scared to take the weight.
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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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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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It’s just that little box in the middle of Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Most of the time I go I don’t even leave that apartment. I have just enough: a little bed, a little kitchen with two pots. I make some tea and I look out the window or just lay down.
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Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.
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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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There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.
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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 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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I’m learning from them! Everyone says that, but it’s true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.
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I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.
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I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 19.
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I just love expressing my joy and my mind through what I wear, or how I cook, or how I dance, or how I write or perform a song – how I move.
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