Quotes by India Arie - Page 2

Nina Simone sacrificed so much to be as bold as she was about being black and about being female in an era where that could have cost her life.
India Arie /
Cost
Female
Nina
Bold
Sacrificed
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There's just something creatively fulfilling about watching a movie and writing a song for it because it helps you put on another pair of shoes.
India Arie /
Fulfilling
Creatively
Just Something
Pair
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When it comes down to the song writing, I'm just very slow - very slow. Because the songs are about my life, so I'm doing emotional work on myself.
India Arie /
Life Work Myself
Slow
Song Writing
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When I was growing up, I only saw really brown people on 'The Cosby Show,' and they were rich, and their parents were doctors. It wasn't like my home.
India Arie /
Cosby
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I had been on what seemed to be a hiatus to the outside world, but I was actually working very hard on my health, my emotional health, and my business.
India Arie /
Emotional
Hiatus
Outside World
Outside
Seemed
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I made a conscious decision when I was recording 'Acoustic Soul' to - and this is one of my mantras - follow the music and let the chips fall where they may.
India Arie /
Chips
Conscious
Decision
Fall
Acoustic
Conscious Decision
Follow
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Songs like 'Peaceful World' and songs that are responsible with their lyrics and talk about love and harmony can take the forefront and do something for real.
India Arie /
Harmony
Peaceful
Peaceful World
Forefront
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You deal with what comes to you. If it's something you don't like, you deal with it the best you can. If it's something that you love, you rise to the occasion.
India Arie /
Love You
Rise
Occasion
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Everything in my music has always been emotionally and spiritually motivated... But after I started doing yoga, the place where I came from changed drastically.
India Arie /
Music Always Doing
Drastically
Emotionally
Music Doing Always
Spiritually
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That's the kind of music I want SoulBird to represent: music with intelligence and heart, music that moves people in their souls and their bodies. Music with wings.
India Arie /
Wings
Represent
Souls
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The thought crossed my mind about not wanting to alienate my fan base, but I don't know what would alienate them or bring them in, so I decided not to think about it.
India Arie /
Alienate
Crossed
Fan Base
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I want to always be classy and honest, and I always want to have fun with music, and if I can't really express who I am through my music, then it's not really fun anymore.
India Arie /
Music Always Fun
Classy
Have Fun
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This celebrity culture that hypnotizes people into thinking a person is literally not real because you see them on television is a spell the watcher him- or herself must break.
India Arie /
Celebrity Culture
Herself
Spell
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Music lives in my mother - she's played in bands in Detroit and toured and did the whole thing. So I have somebody who's done it all to just talk to. And we write songs together.
India Arie /
Detroit
Toured
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I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer. Many of my aunts and uncles on my mother's side are musical. My grandparents sang and played blues piano. It's literally in my blood.
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Uncles
Aunts
Blues
Sang
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'Open Door' was a world music project and bilingual. It was in Hebrew and English, and it's great. I do think it's really beautiful. But it's very emotional and very dark - in a good way.
India Arie /
Dark
Good Way
Hebrew
World Music
Good Great Music
Bilingual
English
Good Music Great
Door
Project
Open Door
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I'm actually not a fan of the word 'woke.' I think the connotation of that means being socially aware, which is a beautiful thing to be. But it does not take into account being self-aware.
India Arie /
Connotation
Account
Beautiful Thing
Fan
Word
Socially
Woke
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If I don't have the right clothes, I feel weird walking out; I don't feel comfortable in what I have on. I have different colors that I want to wear on different days because it makes me feel different.
India Arie /
Different Colors
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Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.
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Admitting
Pain
Myself Personality Never
Putting
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I am really excited to be partnering with Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula. Aside from being a longtime fan of their products, they're a family business with a strong ethical foundation, and that makes us a great match.
India Arie /
Ethical
Foundation
Family Business Great
Aside
Butter
Family Business
Formula
Longtime
Match
Palmer
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I'm kind of like a folk singer mixed with soul, but I feel like if you really are a lover of hip-hop music, make the beat banging as possible and then put the message in so that people get the honey with the medicine.
India Arie /
Banging
Hip Hop
Honey
Medicine
Music Soul People
Beat
Lover
Folk
Folk Singer
Singer
Message
Mixed
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If I were not a black artist but I was still singing, playing guitar, and singing ballads that are spiritual and cerebral, I'd be easier to market because people accept that from white female singer-songwriters faster.
India Arie /
Ballads
Cerebral
Easier
Faster
Female
Singing
Spiritual
Accept
Market
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Just like the air you breathe or the water you drink, music shapes you. The trouble is, most people don't use it to spread love and healing. But I think music can make a social contribution if you're responsible with it.
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Breathe
Contribution
Healing
Shapes
Spread
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I want my music to be a contribution, and I want the people who love me on Earth and in Heaven to be proud of who I am, and I want to be proud of myself, and I don't want to look back and say, 'Oh God, why did I say that?'
India Arie /
Contribution
Heaven
Love God Music
Love Me
Oh God
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Some people say, 'If she's so real, why does she call herself with a made-up name?' Well, India is my real name. Or they say, 'If she's so real, why does she wear makeup?' I didn't know there was anything wrong with makeup.
India Arie /
Makeup
People Name Real
Wear
Herself
People Say
Real Name
Some People
They Say
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You wash your hands when you shake a bunch of hands. You have to wash your energy when you're around people. It's hard for me to say self-care is washing, although I think it is. So I made music for self-care. That's what it's for.
India Arie /
Bunch
Music Your Me
Although
Music Me Energy
Shake
Wash
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Now that I have better producer chops, a country album is something I want to do one day. I don't know who's going to put it out. But when I do, I don't think people will call it 'country music.' They'll probably call it 'neo-soul.'
India Arie /
Chops
Country Music
Producer
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I loved her music and the fact that she was a classically trained pianist and that her voice was so unique, but what made Nina Simone my hero is that I had never seen anyone in the public eye who looked anything like me at all, ever.
India Arie /
Eye
Hero
Nina
Pianist
Public Eye
Unique
Voice
Music Me Voice
Looked
Trained
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When someone is themselves through their music, it's soul music. James Taylor is soul music to me 'cause it's just him talking about him. It doesn't have anything to do with black or growing up in the church; it's where it comes from. It's just soul music.
India Arie /
Music Soul Black
James
James Taylor
Soul Music
Taylor
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In Denver, all we really had was pop radio, so I grew up on all that late '70s pop stuff - Billy Joel, James Taylor, Lionel Richie, Elton John, Steve Miller and Toto. Great love songs and really hooky and melodic music - I have all of that stuff in my heart.
India Arie /
Denver
Great Love
Late
Radio
Love Great Music
Billy
Billy Joel
Love Music Great
Elton
Elton John
James
James Taylor
John
Lionel
Love Songs
Melodic
Miller
Richie
Steve
Taylor
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With 'Acoustic Soul,' I saw my music as sparse. But I didn't do that because I was making a commitment to be commercial. That's what made 'Acoustic Soul' so difficult to produce. It took 2 1/2 years because I couldn't figure out what I wanted and still be commercial.
India Arie /
Acoustic
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I always felt like - I mean, I was told, really - I couldn't go too far with the productions because it didn't appeal to black radio. It wasn't until I decided I was going to do what I wanted to do or I was going to quit that I empowered myself. I took my power back.
India Arie /
Productions
Appeal
Quit
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It's not my place to say how Zoe Saldana perceives herself, and I can't say how anybody else perceives her, either. I see her as a black person of Hispanic origin, but I don't even know what that really means, because I don't know anything about race and Hispanic culture.
India Arie /
Hispanic
Anybody Else
Herself
Origin
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For the first ten years of my career, I felt suffocated. People constantly stood over me while I tried to create. And in 2009, I hit rock bottom. I couldn't find myself because I was looking to be defined by the music industry or by being number one on the Billboard charts.
India Arie /
Bottom
Defined
Music Industry
Music Myself Me
Billboard
Charts
Stood
Suffocated
Ten Years
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Everybody has a spiritual body. Everybody has a physical body, and so your spiritual body is the stuff that holds all of your emotions like your body holds your organs, your food, your muscles, your water. Your spiritual body holds your emotional state and your mental state.
India Arie /
Muscles
Organs
Physical Body
Spiritual
Your Body
Holds
Mental
Physical
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It's important to have a place where you can recharge. Everybody's is different, but I do think it should entail quiet because it needs to be where you hear your spirit most clearly. For me, that's the prayer room in my apartment. And since my home is 700 square feet, I mean the coat closet near the front door.
India Arie /
Home
Apartment
Feet
Needs
Prayer
Quiet
Since
Clearly
Closet
Coat
Door
Front
Hear
Near
Room
Square
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Could a person really make a social contribution through music consciously? I mean, beyond making a person happy to hear the song and more making a social contribution consciously through your music? For me, Stevie Wonder is the paragon of that. And I didn't want to be Stevie Wonder, but I did want to do what he does.
India Arie /
Contribution
Music Your Me
Music Me Song
Stevie
Stevie Wonder
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