Badu Quotes
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Badu Quotes & Sayings
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No one chooses to raise children alone.
— Erykah Badu
I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is.
— Erykah Badu
I don't require sex for happiness - I need companionship. I need a partner I can depend on, that I can love and grow with.
— Erykah Badu
I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.
— Boz Scaggs
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.
— Erykah Badu
If you make a decision, a pact with someone, your friend, you should say, 'I'm gonna do this,' and you should stick to it.
— Erykah Badu
I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.
— Erykah Badu
When you're performing, you're creating a moment.
— Erykah Badu
Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness.
— Erykah Badu
I create my own calm and I keep my balance, because I know that it's not really me, by myself ... The Creator always gives me the energy.
— Erykah Badu
I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.
— Erykah Badu
What a frequency What a voice. I love Bilal. I couldn't imagine a music world without his voice.
— Erykah Badu
What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.
— Erykah Badu
If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.
— Erykah Badu
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
— Erykah Badu
The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.
— Erykah Badu
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.
— Erykah Badu
Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.
— Erykah Badu
I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.
— Erykah Badu
But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
— Erykah Badu
I'm more like an oven than a microwave,
— Erykah Badu
If we were made in his image then call us by our names.
Most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us just the same — Erykah Badu
Most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us just the same — Erykah Badu
I'm pretty mutable as a human being, period - if you put me on Pluto, I can figure it out.
— Erykah Badu
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.
— Erykah Badu
Better think while it's still legal.
— Erykah Badu
Be you. Make sure you're saying something when you're saying something. It's important to sound like you, to feel like you, to be like you. Be you.
— Erykah Badu
I try to be honest and I keep moving.
— Erykah Badu
Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.
— Erykah Badu
We literally just finished making this gown 20 minutes ago. I love it. It's my favorite color.
— Erykah Badu
Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.
— Erykah Badu
There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me.
— Erykah Badu
Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy.
— Erykah Badu
Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me.
— Erykah Badu
I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.
— Erykah Badu
We lock ourselves into our own philosophies, our own religions, our own walks of life, and if we fail, we condemn ourselves and then we get sick.
— Erykah Badu
Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.
— Erykah Badu
I grew up listening to old soul.
— Erykah Badu
The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
— Erykah Badu
Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.
— Erykah Badu
Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.
— Erykah Badu
Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you
— Erykah Badu
When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.
— Erykah Badu
I live in a queendom, ruled by a womb-iverse,
— Erykah Badu
Honey isn't really that good for you.
— Erykah Badu
My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables,
It don't have nothing to do with your new friend — Erykah Badu
It don't have nothing to do with your new friend — Erykah Badu
I encourage breaking free of self inflicted holding pens. I encourage the use of intelligence in every decision. I encourage creating.
— Erykah Badu
I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it - in science - sympathetic vibrations.
— Erykah Badu
I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist.
— Erykah Badu
I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.
— Erykah Badu
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.
— Erykah Badu
My hair is an aesthetic choice ... At the same time, how you wear your hair is a political statement as well.
— Erykah Badu
I've been a vegetarian since I was 19.
— Erykah Badu
Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.
— Erykah Badu
I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
— Erykah Badu
I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.
— Erykah Badu
Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.
— Erykah Badu
I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.
— Erykah Badu
I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.
— Erykah Badu
What opens my heart is when my son wakes me up in the morning, nudging me and saying, 'Mommy, mommy!'
— Erykah Badu
I just keep going. When the water's too still, I start splashing around and things jump out of the water.
— Erykah Badu
I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person.
— Erykah Badu
All of my children are the same way I am. They're little artists too, in their own ways.
— Erykah Badu
I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
— Erykah Badu
I love putting the music together. It's like art.
— Erykah Badu
I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen.
— Erykah Badu
I view my hair and clothes as functional art ...
— Erykah Badu
Don't let anybody infiltrate your dream
— Erykah Badu
When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.
— Erykah Badu
I'm only in competition with my last level.
— Erykah Badu
If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.
— Erykah Badu
The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.
— Erykah Badu
Music and the music business are two different things.
— Erykah Badu
I'm a recovering undercover over-lover.
— Erykah Badu
Art is the absence of fear.
— Erykah Badu
All I want to do is give the world my heart ... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.
— Erykah Badu