What singing means to me, I never did consider myself a singer, I just let people watch me feel music and how it comes through me. I’ve worked on it and practiced a lot. I mean, music, I dance to it, and singing is just one way of getting it out of me.

— Erykah Badu

Erykah Badu Quotes

In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!’

— Erykah Badu

Hip-Hop is bigger than the government.

— Erykah Badu

We literally just finished making this gown 20 minutes ago. I love it. It’s my favorite color.

— Erykah Badu

I’m only in competition with my last level. It don’t have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.

— Erykah Badu

I’ll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I’ll be doing albums during this time.

— Erykah Badu

We’re all friends, inside the music and outside the music. I mean, we don’t sound anything alike, we don’t approach our music anything alike, but we come from the same genuine place. We want our music to be real and we don’t want to compromise our art.

— Erykah Badu

I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn’t have anything to do with the artist.

— Erykah Badu

I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.

— Erykah Badu

I really enjoy being the child’s ‘welcoming committee’ and to help someone usher his or her spirit into the world in a very peaceful way is very effortless to me.

— Erykah Badu

He definitely does what a partner is supposed to do, that is, evolve you.

— Erykah Badu

What a frequency What a voice. I love Bilal. I couldn’t imagine a music world without his voice.

— Erykah Badu

When I get ready to do an album, that means I have something to say for the sake of words, and I listen back to all of the things I’ve been creating and pull things from out of the air to go with them. It’s almost like I start creating the album before I even think about creating it.

— Erykah Badu

I’m in training to become a midwife. I’m almost there and before I know it I’ll be able to open my own practice, if that’s what I desire.

— Erykah Badu

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

— Erykah Badu

When people are going on to the next plateau of whatever this thing is called life, I also want them to breathe easily, even if it’s the last one they take here with us. I guess I’m the welcoming committee and ushering committee.

— Erykah Badu

Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I’m helping someone come to terms with leaving this place – I play Richard Pryor records.

— Erykah Badu

My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that I can communicate with the voice of this generation.

— Erykah Badu

All of my children are the same way I am. They’re little artists too, in their own ways.

— Erykah Badu

When you’re performing, you’re creating a moment.

— Erykah Badu

Erykah Badu projects don’t even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don’t even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.

— Erykah Badu
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