Meshell Ndegeocello Quotes

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Meshell Ndegeocello

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 29, 1968

We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

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Definitely dub is in my body forever. I think I hear everything through a dub filter. Even when I play rock music, I play through a dub filter.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

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I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.

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I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.'

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I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

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I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like 'Midnight in Paris.' Nostalgia isn't so enticing.

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I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

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I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

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There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

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It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.

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Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun.

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I'm becoming more and more apolitical - I think the most revolutionary thing you can do is just live your life and have a good time. Before they scoop you up on the street or you die.

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I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ease with themselves.

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Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

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I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!

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I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.

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Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.

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