Meshell Ndegeocello Quotes - Page 2

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• I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ease with themselves.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Children, Animal, Adults

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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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  Song, Thinking, Suffering

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• I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

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  Song, Trying, Stories

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• I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.

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  Watches, Information, Documentaries

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• I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.

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  Beginners, Looks, Something New

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• I feel that musicians are in a fellowship, and that fellowship is a responsibility.

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  Responsibility, Musician, Fellowship

  Interview with Melissa Locker, www.believermag.com. September 2014.

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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 other people got to where they are.

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  Song, Nice, Play

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• Madonna is interesting. She changed music. She definitely did. She gave me an opportunity that no one else would give me, so I am very grateful to her.

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  Grateful, Opportunity, Giving

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Sometimes people ask what it was like when I got to meet Mick Jagger, and I must admit that you just try and chill out and be your best self around anyone that you meet.

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  Self, People, Trying

  Interview with Melissa Locker, www.believermag.com. September 2014.

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• It's funny, I think after you are a star like Sting and you no longer think you need any guidance or aid - it would be great to see those stars work with other songwriters.

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  Stars, Thinking, Would Be

  Interview with Melissa Locker, www.believermag.com. September 2014.

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• I dabble in the jazz world, which is male-­dominated. If you had two women playing together, it became a shtick. It becomes a "girl group," and it has to be something cutesy. That's hard to contend with.

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  Girl, Together, World

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Definitely dub is in my body forever. I think I hear everything through a dub filter. Even when I play rock music, I play through a dub filter.

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  Thinking, Rocks, Play

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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 produce themselves. I'm definitely not that person.

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  Needs, Helping, Wonder

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• I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

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  Stars, Needs, Records

  "Peace Go With You, Brother: Meshell Ndegeocello Pays Tribute To Gil Scott-Heron", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2011.

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• Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

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  World, Way, Violence

  "Meshell Ndegeocello And Toshi Reagon Discuss Civil Rights, A Modern Day Civil War, And More". Interview with Toshi Reagon, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.

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  Art, Cooking, Able

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• Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.

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  Artist, Pieces, Critique

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• You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.

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  Thinking, People, Choices

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• I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like “Midnight in Paris.” Nostalgia isn’t so enticing.

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  Color, Paris, Midnight

  "Meshell Ndegeocello And Toshi Reagon Discuss Civil Rights, A Modern Day Civil War, And More". Interview with Toshi Reagon, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• Our leaders and Osama Bin Laden all claim to do the right thing in the name of God. I question that. I wonder if that God is worth the life of another human-being.

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  Names, Leader, Wonder

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• I'm really good at melodic and sonic things, but I don't really think I have anything to say. But I really enjoy the puzzle-making of taking words and adding a melody to them.

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  Thinking, Enjoy, Melody

  Interview with Melissa Locker, www.believermag.com. September 2014.

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• I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.

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  Thinking, Soldier, Musician

  Interview with Melissa Locker, www.believermag.com. September 2014.

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• No one knows anything for sure.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Knows

  "Interview with Singer-Songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello by Maranda Pleasant". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The blowing thing is something that you either have a predilection for or not. And I don't have that thing. It was just unsanitary. I couldn't do it. I am a complete germaphobe.

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  Interview with Melissa Locker, www.believermag.com. September 2014.

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