India Arie Quotes

India Arie

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 3, 1975

In this era, soul is not a sound or a color: it's an intention.

India Arie

That's the kind of music I want SoulBird to represent: music with intelligence and heart, music that moves people in their souls and their bodies. Music with wings.

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I do believe in prophecy.

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Songs like 'Peaceful World' and songs that are responsible with their lyrics and talk about love and harmony can take the forefront and do something for real.

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I've always wanted my music to serve a certain purpose.

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'Open Door' was a world music project and bilingual. It was in Hebrew and English, and it's great. I do think it's really beautiful. But it's very emotional and very dark - in a good way.

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Our food choices show up on our body.

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It was challenging getting myself into the mindset to lose the weight. Once I got there, the weight dropped off quickly.

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I had been on what seemed to be a hiatus to the outside world, but I was actually working very hard on my health, my emotional health, and my business.

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Could a person really make a social contribution through music consciously? I mean, beyond making a person happy to hear the song and more making a social contribution consciously through your music? For me, Stevie Wonder is the paragon of that. And I didn't want to be Stevie Wonder, but I did want to do what he does.

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I'm in show business, and I'm an entertainer, but I also see myself as an artist doing social and spiritual work.

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It took me almost wanting to retire to realize that you need to ask for what you need. Everybody needs something different, but whatever it is you need, you need to ask for it and figure out how to get it.

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Now that I have better producer chops, a country album is something I want to do one day. I don't know who's going to put it out. But when I do, I don't think people will call it 'country music.' They'll probably call it 'neo-soul.'

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The thought crossed my mind about not wanting to alienate my fan base, but I don't know what would alienate them or bring them in, so I decided not to think about it.

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I made a conscious decision when I was recording 'Acoustic Soul' to - and this is one of my mantras - follow the music and let the chips fall where they may.

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I don't want the world to get any worse. I want to make it better.

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I know the things I say go out of my own mouth and into my own ears.

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I've spent my entire life trying to figure out why I was different than everybody else. Why is my voice so deep? Why am I so muscular?

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Nobody looked like me when I was growing up. None of the kids were as big as me, or as serious as me, or listened to the same music.

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When I was growing up, I only saw really brown people on 'The Cosby Show,' and they were rich, and their parents were doctors. It wasn't like my home.

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