My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.
I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we see… - Meshell Ndegeocello
I am here no longer just a vision birthed into this body I accept my praise, my blame, my joy, my sorrow I realize we are, in truth, the truth we see…
- Meshell Ndegeocello
It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their… - Meshell Ndegeocello
It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their…
Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give… - Meshell Ndegeocello
Music is my only guide. I don't care if people pigeonhole me. Miles Davis is my hero. He covered Cindy Lauper and Michael Jackson, and he didn't give…
I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails. - Meshell Ndegeocello
I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.
Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.” - Meshell Ndegeocello
Any ideas of “other” are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of “normal.”
Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with. - Meshell Ndegeocello
Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.
Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for. - Meshell Ndegeocello
Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.
I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ea… - Meshell Ndegeocello
I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ea…
Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down. - Meshell Ndegeocello
Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.
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