Music and the music business are two different things.
ERYKAH BADUIf 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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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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There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in 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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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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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’m just being who I am and expressing myself as everyone else does.
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I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
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I have a pair of blue pants that were my favorite for a while and were a part of my show uniform – every night, you know.
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I view my hair and clothes as functional art.
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I was born to make mistakes, I ain’t scared to take the weight.
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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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Im a hip-hopper, and its something you live and do. It makes me angry that were misrepresented, that were being killed every day by one another, by the government, by the food we eat, the choices we make. It makes me angry because it doesnt have to be that way and it is.
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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’d rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
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