Quotes by Erykah Badu

About Erykah Badu:

Erykah Abi Wright is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, activist, and actress. Badu's career began after opening a show for D'Angelo in 1994 in her hometown; record label executive Kedar Massenburg was highly impressed with her performance and signed her to Kedar Entertainment. Her first album, Baduizm, was released on February 11, 1997. It spawned three singles: "On & On", "Next Lifetime" and "Otherside of the Game". The album was certified triple Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Badu's first live album, Live, was released on November 18, 1997 and was certified double Platinum by the RIAA.
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No one chooses to raise children alone.

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I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

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I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time.

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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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I love putting the music together. It's like art.

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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...

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Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

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Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

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Music and the music business are two different things.

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The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

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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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I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture o...

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What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

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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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Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.

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I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison.

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What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

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Honey isn't really that good for you.

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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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Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventua...

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Author Bio

  • NameErykah Badu
  • DescriptionAmerican R&B singer
  • AliasesErica Abi Wright; Erica Wright
  • BornFebruary 26, 1971
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSinger; Singer-songwriter; Poet; Composer; Jazz Musician