Quotes by Meshell Ndegeocello

About Meshell Ndegeocello:

Meshell Ndegeocello is an American singer-songwriter, rapper, bassist, and vocalist. Her music incorporates a wide variety of influences, including funk, soul, jazz, hip hop, reggae and rock. She has received significant critical acclaim throughout her career, and has had ten career Grammy Award nominations. She has been credited for having "sparked the neo-soul movement."
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Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

Meshell Ndegeocello

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.'

Meshell Ndegeocello

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

Meshell Ndegeocello

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

Meshell Ndegeocello

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

Meshell Ndegeocello

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

Meshell Ndegeocello

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

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

Meshell Ndegeocello

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.

Meshell Ndegeocello

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

Meshell Ndegeocello

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

Meshell Ndegeocello

I'm a true believer that unless you're Prince or Stevie Wonder - and even Prince is showing that he needs help - not everybody can produce themselves. I'm definitely not that person.

Meshell Ndegeocello

My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were genius in knowing that's as much as a listener can take.

Meshell Ndegeocello

It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.

Meshell Ndegeocello

It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.

Meshell Ndegeocello

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

Meshell Ndegeocello

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

Meshell Ndegeocello

God looks out for fools and babies.

Meshell Ndegeocello

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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Author Bio

  • NameMeshell Ndegeocello
  • DescriptionAmerican musician
  • BornAugust 29, 1968
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionGuitarist; Singer; Singer-songwriter; Composer; Songwriter
  • WorksWeather