Erykah Badu Quotes

• I don’t read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

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  Tags in Basically

• I don’t feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience’s ability to feel me.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Preach, Underestimate, Listeners, Share

• I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It’s not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it’s a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.

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  Topics in Gift

  Tags in Creator, Work Hard, Appreciate

• I believed in myself, and I’ve always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.

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  Tags in Always

• I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I’m not judgmental. And I’m a vegetarian.

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  Tags in Vegetarian, Systematic

• Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

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  Tags in Antidote, Feel Good, Hopefully

• From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I’m supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That’s my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.

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  Tags in Applause, Receiving

• But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Realize, Needs

• As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it’s about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that’s completion.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Influenced, Wrapped

• As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it’s about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that’s completion.

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• And I figured out that the reason I couldn’t get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

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  Tags in Unnecessary, Figured

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

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  Topics in Computer

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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