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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
#Black
#Choose
#End
#Gone
#Us
My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him.
- Meshell Ndegeocello
#Beautiful
#Influence
#Looking
#Love
#Me
I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.
- Meshell Ndegeocello
#Ahead
#Company
#My Own
#Need
#Own
I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!
- Meshell Ndegeocello
#Bedroom
#Earthquake
#Find
#Music
#Myself
Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.
- Meshell Ndegeocello
#Born
#Children
#Optimism
#Simplicity
Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give a hoot about what the purists said.
- Meshell Ndegeocello
#Care
#Hero
#Me
#Music
#People
I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.
- Meshell Ndegeocello
#Always
#Like
#Look
#New
#Something
My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.
- Meshell Ndegeocello
#Eyes
#Love
#Me
#Music
#Time
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
#Everyone
#Feel
#Know
#Suffering
#Think
I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.
- Meshell Ndegeocello
#Control
#Feel
#Me
#People
#Time
Definitely dub is in my body forever. I think I hear everything through a dub filter. Even when I play rock music, I play through a dub filter.
- Meshell Ndegeocello
#Body
#Everything
#Filter
#Music
#Rock
It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.
- Meshell Ndegeocello
#Learning
#Music
#Nice
#People
#Play
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.
- Meshell Ndegeocello
#Die
#Good
#Life
#Live
#Time
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
#Monkey
#Muscle
#Never
#Statue
#Trying
God looks out for fools and babies.
- Meshell Ndegeocello
#Babies
#Fools
#God
#Looks
#Out
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