Erykah Badu (Erica Abi Wrigh) Quotes
I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.
Erykah Badu
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And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
Victoria de los Angeles
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
A. R. Rahman
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
Yuna
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Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.
La'Porsha Renae
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
G-Eazy
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My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
Randy Newman
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
Obie Trice
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My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.
K. Flay
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.
Jim Capaldi
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Make a better friend of every man with whom you come in contact
William Feather
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...the importance of leadership and what it consists of: not lecturing and posturing and demanding, but demonstrating that your friends will be protected and taken care of, that your enemies will be punished, and that those who refuse to support you will regret having done so.
Paul Wolfowitz
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Desire is normal. Attention is normal, and that's okay.
Emily Ratajkowski
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He was taking off his tie, the dreadful tie with the green mermaid on it. “It’s your tie, Sam—I hate it! Why must you always . . .” I’m not saying it right, she thought, not any of it.
Bel Kaufman
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I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.
Erykah Badu
