Erica Abi Wright, stage name Erykah Badu, is an American professional singer-songwriter, actress, and record producer.
Her music and quotes are influenced by hip-hop, soul, and R&B. Interestingly, her debut album 'Baduizm' put her on the frontline of the neo-soul movement. This earned her the nickname 'Queen of Neo Soul'.
After her first album, she released a couple of singles, 'Otherside Of The Game', 'On & On', 'Next Lifetime', 'Didn't Cha Know', 'Appletree' and others. Most of Erykah Badu's quotes are from her interview sessions, her songs, and her journals. As you keep reading, you will see Erykah Badu's inspirational quotes, her quotes about life, and many more.
Erykah Badu Quotes About Life
Erykah Badu's quotes have a way of being relatable. Erykah Badu is an artist and songwriter who crafts her music for everyone to relate to.
Most of her works are greatly influenced by her experiences while growing up, and her words center on life. If you pay close attention to the quotes listed below, you will be able to learn a lot about her view on life.
"I was born to make mistakes, but I ain't scared to take the weight." -'Didn't Cha Know'
"And help comes. It doesn't matter how much money you have. It's easy, it's really easy, especially when you like your kids."
"I mean, that's a big part of our existence here on earth, the personal relationship we have with the person that we love, with the person that we make love to, with the person that we share our lives with."
"If you decide to have a baby, it doesn't interfere with your career at all. If anything, it becomes an enhancement because if it enhances your life – and your music is your life – it definitely enhances your music."
"I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out."
"I'm a blues singer, so I just sing blues over different kinds of music."
"To me, an album is not just about the music but also the artwork, the liner notes, the lyrics, the whole package. That's what I grew up seeing. There was no video, you just saw the album cover."
"Time to eliminate things that no longer evolve me."
"I've been a chain monogamous person my whole career. Long relationships with one partner, and generally the one partner it's like a marriage and we have a child and we have a home and we have a commitment and there's a lot of things sacred."
"Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing."
"The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good on the inside."
"I'm only in competition with my last level."
Erykah Badu's Spiritual Quotes
Erykah Badu believed that music is spiritual and has much power. She believed it to be something you feel from within. This belief has given her insight into developing spiritual and inspiring quotes. You will see Erykah Badu's insightful spiritual quotes as you keep reading the list of quotes compiled below.
"Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator."
"Music is part of the fabric of my skin, my life, it surrounds me everywhere."
"Music is motivated by energy and feelings."
"I create my own calm and I keep my balance, because I know that it's not really me, by myself… The Creator always gives me the energy."
"I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me."
"When you're performing, you're creating a moment."
"I think people who vibrate at the same frequency, vibrate toward each other. They call it – in science – sympathetic vibrations."
"Because we're in such a programmed state where programmers play the same six songs all the time. We are controlling our own frequency, we are deciding what's in the airwaves, what it sounds like, what it looks like, what it feels like."
"People are organizing and fusing together to make change, and it's inspiring. I think it's part of the natural order of things."
Erykah Badu's Inspirational Quotes
Erykah Badu's career has always been inspirational and motivational. Her background would have been a stumbling block for her as she grew up in Dallas and abandoned school to focus on music.
However, her fighting spirit brought her to the hall of fame. In addition, using her unique style of writing and voice, she has inspired many people, both young and old. Here are Erykah Badu's inspirational quotes for you to get inspired.
"I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it."
"What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another."
"When you can control the frequency of the music, you have a lot more control over the sheep or the people, the way they think, the way they feel."
"Art is the absence of fear."
"When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work."
"I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world."
"Following your heart also means eliminating the things that no longer evolve you."
"That's the moment I learned that the more you believe in yourself, the stronger the vibration touches someone else, and things begin to happen the way you dreamed that they would."
"My life is built around my children. They inspire me, motivate me, I enjoy being their mother, teacher, doctor, nutritionist. They know that wherever Mommy is, that is where home is."
"Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned."
"That makes me feel good because that's what the music I listen to did for me. And if it's doing that, that's good, 'cause it's creating some energy in people, some movement.'"
"I am ever-evolving."
"I keep my negative thoughts from infiltrating my pathway and my dreams. Other people's thoughts are none of my business."
"We're evolving, and what helps us evolve is social media. Social media is social evolution. It's sparking a great change."
"So whenever I want to bring something back to life, I put a visual to it and put it out for people to enjoy it, give it another face, another turn."
"My religion is art, from the time I was a kid I was in dance class or theater or making clothes, doing something pertaining to art."
"I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen."
"The heartbeat of my music became the bass line and the drums."
"Be you. Make sure you're saying something when you're saying something. It's important to sound like you, to feel like you, to be like you. Be you."
"I live in a queendom, ruled by a womb-iverse."
"I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word."
"So the most natural thing to me is to stay as pure to or real to or close to who I am as possible."
"Wherever I am needed, that is where I want to be."
"I'm a complete human being. I'm very emotional and loving. I feel, I hurt, I give, I take, and also I think. I analyze. I'm a sociologist, anthropologist."
"Don't let anybody infiltrate your dream."
Erykah Badu's Famous Quotes
Erykah Badu, a famous singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress, has been able to use her popularity to influence many people. Her songs have dominated the charts in a lot of countries around the world. Most of her famous quotes are inspirational and motivational. Here are some famous quotes from Erykah Badu.
"My background is in art, period."
"Music and music business are two different things."
"More than sounding alike, we feel alike and we share emotion and I have the ability to sing with emotion."
"Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me."
"I think [fashion philosophy] it's about your smile and your smell."
"I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second."
"The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear."
"He definitely does what a partner is supposed to do, that is, evolve you."
"I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform."
"I love being an entertainer – not really fond of being a celebrity."
"Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world."
"We expect a lot of things back from our loved one, and the lesson is to accept and not expect."
"I'm really a child of funk music, my uncles grew up listening to funk music most of the time and that's what I grew up listening to most of the time."
"I don't know how to read music, I never understood the theory. I am not a great dancer, I am a cool vocalist, but it just feels good to me. I like how it feels, it became my therapy and later my job."
"I never saw it fit to be my job to fit into any kind of category or label. I just have to do things that feel good. "
