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Erykah Badu

"I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that."

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"I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that."

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Asa Don Brown

"Music gives life to the soul."

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Asa Don Brown

"Music gives strength to the soul."

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Asa Don Brown

"Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."

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Asa Don Brown

"We often forget to draw a new picture because we are so busy criticizing other paintings."

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Asa Don Brown

"A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty."

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Asa Don Brown

"Poets create a beautiful blue sky where you can fly with wings of imagination and find yourself again and again."

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Asa Don Brown

"The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life."

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Asa Don Brown

"A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture."

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Asa Don Brown

"Literature tries to express the intricate inner beauties of life. Philosophy tries to explain the intricate inner beauties and conflicts of thoughts."

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Asa Don Brown

"Listen to the song of silence to understand the unsung music of the heart."

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Erykah Badu
"I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand."

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Erykah Badu
"Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business."

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Erykah Badu
"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."

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Erykah Badu
"I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear."

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Erykah Badu
"From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it."

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Erykah Badu
"And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary."

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Erykah Badu
"I love putting the music together. It's like art."

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Erykah Badu
"I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian."

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Erykah Badu
"I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison."

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Erykah Badu
"Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do."

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