Janelle Monae Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Janelle Monae:
I have not lost any of my crazy, fearless, raw, soulful, eclectic side and I plan on continuing to tell universal stories in an unforgettable way.
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I know what I like; if you go to my closet, I have at least four of everything.
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I won't sit here and say I've never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables and fish. And I think stress plays a huge part too.
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I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's another way.
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I love the mystery behind things.
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I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.
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It's a big universe. To stay in one tiny place is doing a disservice to yourself.
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I take goldenseal, Echinacea and cod liver oil when flying to boost my immune system.
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You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.
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Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.
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I'll refer to my music in color, like 'This song needs to be bright red.'
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I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.
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I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.
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I'm inspired by the words: 'electrifying', 'epic', 'minimalistic', 'transcendent', 'timeless' and 'rock n' roll.'
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I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.
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There are months when I'm on a plane every day!
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Everything is about balance. You can't work, work, work, work without any play.
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I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers.
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Becoming a CoverGirl is truly an honor and a gift. It opens up a new platform for me to inspire women to feel stronger, braver and more beautiful inside and out.
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People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.
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I don't do a lot of collaborations that I don't believe in. Actually, I don't do any collaborations that I don't believe in.
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I've cried over string arrangements.
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Children go with whatever makes them feel good - like if that's the color green or orange, they do that with their clothes. As I've grown older, everything reversed. My music, my personality - onstage those things became my colors.
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Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.
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I'm attracted to things that scare me, like 'Psycho,' my favorite Hitchcock movie.
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Honestly, I don't believe in menswear. I focus on what pieces are most timeless, transcendent, match my lifestyle, remain remarkable, and command intriguing attention across the room at an art gallery.
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I have a great body, I really do. But I want to be taken seriously as an artist, and wearing anything that shows it off will be a distraction from the music. That's how my signature uniform, my tuxedo, came about. It's classic and timeless. You'll see me in black, white, and a pop of color on my lips. That pop adds a little magic.
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When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.
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One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.
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Once you find what you like, it's like it worked yesterday, it works today, it'll work tomorrow.
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It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default.
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My message is that I want to reach the people - the people who work each and every day.
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I'm a believer that the more I'm giving, the happier I am, and the more beautiful my exterior will be.
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I love Fun. They're great guys. They're incredible artists and musicians.
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We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist, I want to open doors for young black girls.
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When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.
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I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.
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I just think my own ambition would not allow me to sit on the gifts that my creator had given me. And so that's when I realized that I could actually go away.
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I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.
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