Erykah Badu Quotes

• The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

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  Topics in Business

  Tags in Motivated

• The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

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• Personally, I don’t choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That’s between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Personally, Symbol, Self, Choose

• Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one.

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  Topics in Baby

  Tags in Together, Straight

• Music and the music business are two different things.

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• Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That’s what I want to do.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Marvin, Spoke, Revolutionary

• It’s almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It’s their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it’s harder for us.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Black, Cloud, Heads, Philosophy

• I’m not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Explanations, Satisfied

• I’m free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don’t try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don’t compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

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  Topics in Compromise

• I’ll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I’ll be doing albums during this time.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Label, During, Forms, Dabble

• I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She’s someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That’s what I do, too, so I think that’s a great comparison.

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  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Sharing, Help, Comparison

• I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn’t conform.

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  Tags in Conform

• I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tape, Recorder, Push

• I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

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  Topics in Success

  Tags in Planned

• I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It’s fun to see what they’ll say it is.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Listener

• I love putting the music together. It’s like art.

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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.

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• I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that’s cool. Let’s look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

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  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Gesture, Slightest, Diva, Holiday, Singer

• I have a master plan as an artist. I’ve always said I’m not going to be punching nobody’s clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Clock, Survive

• I grew up listening to old soul.

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Erykah Badu (52)

Birth:	26th February, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Lyricist, Record Producer, Singer

About

Erykah Abi Wright, better known by her stage name Erykah Badu was born in Dallas, Texas, USA. She is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Her first album, Baduizm, was released on February 11, 1997. It spawned three singles: "On & On", "Next Lifetime" and "Otherside of the Game". The album was certified triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Her albums list shown below: But You Caint Use My Phone, Mama's Gun, Live, and Worldwide Underground. Her role in several films include: The Cider House Rules, House of D, and Before the Music Dies.

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