India Arie Quotes

India Arie

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 3, 1975

I hope that the things that I sing about will be an inspiration for people to be original.

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It's OK to wear white in the wintertime. Do what you want.

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I love my brownness.

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There are a lot of men who like women with a brain.

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I always have something by Stevie Wonder in my CD player.

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Every once in a while, I find something that I'm interested in just because of the singing, like the Goo Goo Dolls.

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Basically, I listen to voices. If they write good songs and they can sing, I'll probably like it.

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With 'Acoustic Soul,' I saw my music as sparse. But I didn't do that because I was making a commitment to be commercial. That's what made 'Acoustic Soul' so difficult to produce. It took 2 1/2 years because I couldn't figure out what I wanted and still be commercial.

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There's just something creatively fulfilling about watching a movie and writing a song for it because it helps you put on another pair of shoes.

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Everybody has a spiritual body. Everybody has a physical body, and so your spiritual body is the stuff that holds all of your emotions like your body holds your organs, your food, your muscles, your water. Your spiritual body holds your emotional state and your mental state.

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You wash your hands when you shake a bunch of hands. You have to wash your energy when you're around people. It's hard for me to say self-care is washing, although I think it is. So I made music for self-care. That's what it's for.

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I'm actually not a fan of the word 'woke.' I think the connotation of that means being socially aware, which is a beautiful thing to be. But it does not take into account being self-aware.

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I was scared of failing, and I was scared of succeeding. I just wanted to be in a safe space and not grow too big or be too little.

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Denying any person their humanity is a game we should all stop playing.

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Why not be a person who is loving towards humankind as a whole and people as individuals?

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Obviously, I've been heartbroken. We all know what that feels like.

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It's cool to hear my songs on the radio. But for me, that's just a way to get more people to have the option of choosing my music.

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I want to always be classy and honest, and I always want to have fun with music, and if I can't really express who I am through my music, then it's not really fun anymore.

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I want my music to be a contribution, and I want the people who love me on Earth and in Heaven to be proud of who I am, and I want to be proud of myself, and I don't want to look back and say, 'Oh God, why did I say that?'

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