I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician. Meshell Ndegeocello More Quotes by Meshell Ndegeocello More Quotes From Meshell Ndegeocello Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind Meshell Ndegeocello her-beautyhealingmind Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with. Meshell Ndegeocello musicbedlovers Looking at the media today, I'm quite ashamed of myself, of things I've participated in. Everything is marketed to sex and gossip and it's just a shame that those are the things at the forefront, on people's minds, those are the things that make you popular, what you have on or how little you have on and it has nothing to do with music, nothing to do with sports it has nothing to do with the things so many communities put their faith in. It's just a sad place to be. Meshell Ndegeocello mediasportssex I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we seek God, perfect this very moment. Meshell Ndegeocello truthperfectjoy 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 bisexualagendaspeople Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.” Meshell Ndegeocello normalcomplicatedideas I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails. Meshell Ndegeocello passive-resistanceleaderthinking Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for. Meshell Ndegeocello optimismsimplicitychildren My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot. Meshell Ndegeocello legacytryingpeople 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 eyeplayerfather 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 live-your-lifebecomingthinking God looks out for fools and babies. Meshell Ndegeocello foolbabylooks 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 encounterskindnesspeople 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 skullsmindtrying 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 adultsanimalchildren Your yes means nothing if you can't say no. Meshell Ndegeocello ifsmean 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 recordsaskingnumbers I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained. Meshell Ndegeocello documentariesinformationwatches 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 herogivingpeople 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 landknowingsong
