Meshell Ndegeocello Quotes
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I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I…
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I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from…
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I'm a true believer that unless you're Prince or Stevie Wonder - and even Prince is showing that he needs help - not everybody can…
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I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good…
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It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how…
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It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades…
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Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and…
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My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the…
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My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing…
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My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell…
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We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that…
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It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.
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Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.
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There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?
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