Meshell Ndegeocello Quotes
Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.
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When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
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Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
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I like music a lot.
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I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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There's not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the freedom that I have to make music and tour and spend time with my family.
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Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
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The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.
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When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid all the crazy stuff that happened when I first became popular.
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I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.
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Two lovers, here at the corner, by the steeple,Two lovers blow together like music blowing:And the crowd dissolves about them like a sea.Recurring waves of sound break vaguely about them,They drift from wall to wall, from tree to tree.
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If you really don’t enjoy the type of music I make and that’s not you, OK. But don’t say I’m not talented. If you haven’t noticed, I wasn’t made - I was found.
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I had people telling me how much I sucked and how bad my music was, but I didn't allow that to discourage me to the point where I didn't want to do music anymore.
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Write what you want to write, write what people want to hear, and write about what they're going through, because if you could connect with the people who are listening to your music and coming to your concerts and coming to your meet and greets, then you're doing your job well.
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I love country music.
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My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability.
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Their teeth white, as if they never used teeth for anything except to smile.
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I don't wear a lot of perfumey-perfumes because I think a lot of them smell like you're wearing perfume. And I don't want to smell like that.
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The way Fatboy Slim layers motifs is the same as 18th-century baroque counterpoint. You have an idea, then you have an answer to the idea in another voice, then you have a counter idea accompanying the original idea, and you build up your texture like that. I'm really into Kruder and Dorfmeister at the moment, and they do the same thing.
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Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.
