Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
What a frequency What a voice. I love Bilal. I couldn't imagine a music world without his voice. — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
We're all friends, inside the music and outside the music. I mean, we don't sound anything alike, we don't approach our music… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
My second mother is my maternal grandmother. Her name is Thelma. She also gave me a very powerful medicine; she made sure… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
We were all born, and we all came to the music business with everything we had. Some of us just don't get… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I relate to that - he inspires me across the board. His music inspires me and reminds me to maintain honesty in… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Different periods, different cultures - it's just the way my mind works. My music is that way as well. There's a foundation… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I had the opportunity, as a child, to grow up in a community center where I was exposed to theater, music, art,… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
In music, it makes for a good platform to take time and really mold a piece the way I need to mold… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up,… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
When I get ready to do an album, that means I have something to say for the sake of words, and I listen back… — Erykah Badu Copy Share
I just love expressing my joy and my mind through what I wear, or how I cook, or how I dance, or how I… — Erykah Badu Copy Share
...When it come to da: " What it do?! I don't fall for da: "Woop- TeE- WoOoo! — Erykah Badu Copy Share
I relate to that - he inspires me across the board. His music inspires me and reminds me to maintain honesty in the things… — Erykah Badu Copy Share
There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. — Erykah Badu Copy Share
My second mother is my maternal grandmother. Her name is Thelma. She also gave me a very powerful medicine; she made sure that I… — Erykah Badu Copy Share
My mom was the Diana Ross of our clan. She was always up-to-date, and always knew what to do and what not to do… — Erykah Badu Copy Share
I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth. — Erykah Badu Copy Share
People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve. — Erykah Badu Copy Share
My first, my birth mother - her name is Queenie - she gave me a powerful medicine when I was a child. She told… — Erykah Badu Copy Share
They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I… — Erykah Badu Copy Share
Through [my children] patience, they're showing me how much they support what's going on, because I'm having to do a lot of work right… — Erykah Badu Copy Share
