Quote

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

Angelique Kidjo

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Angelique Kidjo
Brain
Inspirational
Connecting
Heart
Weapon
Mind
Connect
Singers
Anywhere
Weapons
Greatest

More quotes by Angelique Kidjo

Image
My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
I’m honoured when Africa recognises me
Angelique Kidjo
Image
The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music, of the pop music, rock and roll, or R&B, hip hop, whatever it is, their roots trace back to Africa. So if you are black, white, yellow, or red, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, because your DNA is back in Africa.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
Music for me has been my breath, my backbone since I was a little kid. Anything that comes to my life, hard time or good time, I always find comfort in music.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
Doing an album is like having a business card to show people what you do. The most important thing to me is the stage. I do albums because I love the stage.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
For me, from the point of view of my life, I've been impacted by women that taught me that, as a woman, my body is a sanctuary, that whoever I invite in my body, I have to be clear in that invitation.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
You can fall, but you can rise also.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it doesn't promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
Your color doesn't define your brain nor your soul. You can stand next to any human being and challenge that person as long as you use your brain.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
We cannot hurt ourselves just for the sake of it. When you hurt somebody you hurt yourself. Down the line, the ripple of it comes back to you.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
Dream big, as long as you do it in sync with your truth, with your heart, your brain. And you are not hurting anybody, go ahead and do it.
Angelique Kidjo
Image
Don't let misery bring you down.
Angelique Kidjo