Erykah Badu Quotes

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Erykah Badu

Profession : Musician

Birth : February 26, 1971

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

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I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

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I've had two children. I've had three boyfriends. I've had a lot of things happen that can change your opinions and values and philosophies.

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I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

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I love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.

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I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.

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I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want, so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally.

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I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.

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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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