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Meshell Ndegeocello
American Musician
Born: Aug 29, 1968
Love Me Music People Think You
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God looks out for fools and babies. Meshell Ndegeocello
God Fools Babies Out Looks
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
You People Whatever Bisexual Call Expect Represent Just Being Want Agenda Hard
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
You Song Try Tell Able Emotion Trying Just Story Really Transmit
Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.' Meshell Ndegeocello
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I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails. Meshell Ndegeocello
Strength Think Entails Leaders Passive Incapable Resistance
I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star. Meshell Ndegeocello
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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
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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
You Suffering Think Everyone Hierarchy Something Songs Feel Know Transcendent Where
Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun. Meshell Ndegeocello
Nothing Sun New Nothing New Really
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
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I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ease with themselves. Meshell Ndegeocello
Love Animals Too Ease More Adult Like Around Than Just Children Prefer Themselves Much Really Who Beings Actually
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
Kindness You Yourself People Build Down Once Limits Shield Testing Encounter Up Close Really Who Start
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
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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
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You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life. Meshell Ndegeocello
Life Music You People Think Make Access Automatically Choice Your Actor
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
Song Genius Thought Favorite Take Period Knowing Were Motown Listener Land Much Lived Thing
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
You Black Dust Gone Carefully About Seems Fades Obsess Like Concept Limiting End Very Just Us Choose Species
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
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I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner. Meshell Ndegeocello
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Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it. Meshell Ndegeocello
Work You Before Critique Finish Allow Piece Artist

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