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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
Not to be a Bible-thumper, but there really is nothing new under the sun. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
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
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
Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
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
Your government has problems ... my government has problems. I can't be a judge. All I can do is be an ambassador of love. I'm a musician, not a soldier, and if I'm invited to a place in order to play and bring love, I'll always accept the invitation. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
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
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
Sometimes people ask what it was like when I got to meet Mick Jagger, and I must admit that you just try and chill out and be your best self around anyone that you meet. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
It's funny, I think after you are a star like Sting and you no longer think you need any guidance or aid - it would be great to see those stars work with other songwriters. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
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
Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind -- Meshell Ndegeocello
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
I feel that musicians are in a fellowship, and that fellowship is a responsibility. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
Madonna is interesting. She changed music. She definitely did. She gave me an opportunity that no one else would give me, so I am very grateful to her. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
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
I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
I tried to be as positive as possible, because I have the same birthday as Michael Jackson. He is my cosmic brother. I love him. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
No one knows anything for sure. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
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
I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like 'Midnight in Paris.' Nostalgia isn't so enticing. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.' -- Meshell Ndegeocello
You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
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
Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
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
I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
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
I'm a true believer that unless you're Prince or Stevie Wonder - and even Prince is showing that he needs help - not everybody can produce themselves. I'm definitely not that person. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
Your yes means nothing if you can't say no. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
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
I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
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
God looks out for fools and babies. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
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
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
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