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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
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Meshell Ndegeocello
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: August 29
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I dabble in the jazz world, which is male-dominated. If you had two women playing together, it became a shtick. It becomes a girl group, and it has to be something cutesy. That's hard to contend with.
Meshell Ndegeocello
The blowing thing is something that you either have a predilection for or not. And I don't have that thing. It was just unsanitary. I couldn't do it. I am a complete germaphobe.
Meshell Ndegeocello
I feel that musicians are in a fellowship, and that fellowship is a responsibility.
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
Your yes means nothing if you can't say no.
Meshell Ndegeocello
I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.
Meshell Ndegeocello
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
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
God looks out for fools and babies.
Meshell Ndegeocello
Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.
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.
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Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”
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.
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