India Arie Quotes

India Arie

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 3, 1975

For me, the healing process starts with graciousness and forgiveness.

India Arie

For the first ten years of my career, I felt suffocated. People constantly stood over me while I tried to create. And in 2009, I hit rock bottom. I couldn't find myself because I was looking to be defined by the music industry or by being number one on the Billboard charts.

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I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer. Many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side are musical. My grandparents sang and played blues piano. It's literally in my blood.

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I am on an album with theater icon Billy Porter called the 'Soul of Richard Rodgers.' Our duet is called 'Carefully Taught.'

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It's not my place to say how Zoe Saldana perceives herself, and I can't say how anybody else perceives her, either. I see her as a black person of Hispanic origin, but I don't even know what that really means, because I don't know anything about race and Hispanic culture.

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Your soul is between you and God.

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Nina Simone sacrificed so much to be as bold as she was about being black and about being female in an era where that could have cost her life.

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I'm really judgmental, especially about things that I feel make my life harder.

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What I love about Stevie Wonder is the way he makes people feel. He's one of the best examples of how music can heal.

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I've never said anything that I didn't want to say on a record, ever.

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In my opinion, you just have to make the music. Make the music and work as hard as you can to get it out there.

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In hindsight, I feel like I made the right decision to choose production that would get played on black radio.

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Joe Sample was one of my heroes. I met him at the Curacao Jazz festival, and I fanned out like he was the Beatles!

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What I love about Christmas music is it stays around every year and comes back.

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Sound is energy, and that energy resonates with your energy. And it gives you a certain feeling.

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I've been trying to arrive at a person who is self-defined and able to make my own mistakes rather than having other people make them for me.

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I like Brandy a lot. She's a vocal prodigy.

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I think anyone who is ever on TV is a role model for somebody.

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I like being a role model - people have told me that I am a role model for empowered women, but I don't see myself that way.

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When it comes down to the song writing, I'm just very slow - very slow. Because the songs are about my life, so I'm doing emotional work on myself.

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