Erykah Badu Quotes - Page 9

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• All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.

  Erykah Badu

  Children, Artist, Littles

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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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

  Erykah Badu

  Artist, Happens, Knows

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• What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

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  Hard Work, Be Kind, Path

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• What a frequency What a voice. I love Bilal. I couldn't imagine a music world without his voice.

  Erykah Badu

  Voice, World, Imagine

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• I'm a product of its [american] teaching, of its thinking, of its -isms, of its religion, of its education. I am conditioned, raised and developed by America; I am America. And as it changes, my thoughts also change. Because no matter what I believe, what the powers-that-be believe will affect me.

  Erykah Badu

  Believe, Teaching, Thinking

  Source: alexmacpherson.tumblr.com

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• Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

  Erykah Badu

  Business, Men, Want

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• Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.

  Erykah Badu

  Helping Someone, Opposites, Play

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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• What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

  Erykah Badu

  Somewhere Else, Interviews, Articles

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• They usually have a piano in every nursing home, and I always wanted to perform for whoever would listen when I learned something. I grew to understand very early that a lot of these people who are in nursing homes are elderly and don't have a lot of things that give them joy from day to day.

  Erykah Badu

  Home, Nursing, Elderly

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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• What opens my heart is when my son wakes me up in the morning, nudging me and saying, 'Mommy, mommy!'

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  Morning, Heart, Son

  Hip Online Interview, hiponline.com. January 22, 2001.

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• I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.

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  Writing, Elements, Patterns

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• My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that I can communicate with the voice of this generation.

  Erykah Badu

  Song, Voice, This Generation

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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• There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.

  Erykah Badu

  Memories, Musical, Atoms

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• Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

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  Art, Real, Hard

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