Meshell Ndegeocello Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind”
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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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“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 statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.”
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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 just don't buy into any of that anymore.”
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“Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.”
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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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“I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!”
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“Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.”
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“Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun.”
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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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“I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.”
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“I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.”
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“I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.”
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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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“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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“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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“Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a shame that those are the things at the forefront, on people's minds, those are the things that make you popular, what you have on or how little you have on and it has nothing to do with music, nothing to do with sports it has nothing to do with the things so many communities put their faith in. It's just a sad place to be.”
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“I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment.”
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“Your government has problems...my government has problems. I can't be a judge. All I can do is be an ambassador of love. I'm a musician, not a soldier, and if I'm invited to a place in order to play and bring love, I'll always accept the invitation.”
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“Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.”
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“Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.”
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“Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.”
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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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“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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“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 him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him.”
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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 that's as much as a listener can take.”
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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 time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.”
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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 he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.”
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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 to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.”
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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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