Top 116 Quotes & Sayings by Raheem DeVaughn
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
'Black Ice Cream' is a salute to the ladies with Black Girl Magic who exude a powerful sexual confidence.
I'm constantly trying to create timeless music that many people can gravitate to.
I am very thankful to Washington, D.C. for their loyalty and support.
I feel like we'll forever live in a country that's divided... Divided by race... Divided by love and hate.
It's a world now where you don't necessarily have to be on the radio or be on the TV to be a star. Your audience can find you and find the music.
The strength it takes to love, mold, and nurture a child should be honored every single day.
I have a good cry once in a while; it's such a great release. Or it could be a cry of joy - watching your child being born or your child walking across a graduation stage.
Every flaw, scar, or mark you may have adds to your beauty.
There's only so many ways to tell a story before the story gets boring.
Social networks didn't exist when I started. Twitter and Facebook didn't exist. It was all about MySpace when I first got in the game.
Being an indie artist, you have to fight for position against a major.
In this life, we are in a constant search for inner peace. We long for it in all aspects of our lives, both personally and professionally. The truth is that we cannot have inner peace without balance. It seems that having too much or too little of anything completely throws off our balance, therefore limiting our inner peace.
We should have better schools.
Dr. Dre I've always been a huge fan of. The Roots as well. The Roots gave me an appreciation for live music.
Everything I do has to be poetically done.
When you make timeless music - and I like to think that's what I'm doing - the fun part is picking the songs. You can clip and flop and mix and match, and when the record is timeless and it feels good, you know it's going to have the same appeal whether you put it out now or 10 years from now. That's what I'm about.
In the past, being young, I might have been standoffish to working with other songwriters.
I put my own money up when I have a vision and believe in something. If you want a company to put money into something, then most of the time, they want to water your project down. When it's your money, it's your vision from the beginning to the end result.
Settling is not necessarily a bad thing. People tend to take it as 'losing something in order to gain something else.' That does not have to be the case. Instead of using the word 'settling,' we should actually be using the word 'compromising.'
I make grown-folks music, and I'm cool with that. I accept that. I try to be witty while also delivering a message.
I have faith in my art.
Relationships are amazing parts of our lives, but they are not always easy. They become even harder when we allow others to interfere in them with their questions and opinions.
Love is the highest frequency we can operate on.
'Footprints On The Moon' plans to inspire and incite positive and catalytic change.
I try to stay away from yes-men in my crew of immediate friends and peers. You got people that will tell you you're the greatest ever, but I need people that can tell me where I need to improve. I can respect the honest opinion.
We live in a world where there is so much wealth. There shouldn't be a homeless person. That's crazy.
I feel like music can be therapeutic for all of us - not just music lovers but the artists that create it.
The best thing I can do is stay on the road and build a grass-roots following. I'm constantly about building my brand.
I enjoy being slept on. It's like being on the verge of a cult movement. But making the underground-to-aboveground transition is cool.
Truth be told, in determining what you want and who you want to be with, you will be compromising in certain areas. It can be in the area of appearance or occupation or maybe even certain personality characteristics, but no one person can have everything.
I'm very big on content. I kind of feel like content is king and will continue to be that, so I'm just going to give the fans what they want.
I've always been hands on with my music and my movement.
Since I am an artist, I know the media can pick you apart.
No diss to any of my homies, but I pay very close attention to what people say about me.
I've blown myself up as a revolutionary and conscious artist. As a philanthropist and a performer.
To be a mother is a beautiful thing, but to be able to assume the role for a child in need is nothing less than amazing. I believe that any woman who takes on the role of a mother, whether it be naturally or through foster care or adoption, should be held in the highest regard.
Anything that exposes the arts more, that gives us an outlet to make money and also do what we enjoy doing as artists and to connect with the fans, I'm all for it.
I am humbled and truly honored to be the recipient of The Key to the City and my own day by the District of Columbia.
A lot of beautiful women that I have come across are the most insecure.
Kids should be able eat and have health care.
There is no single individual greater than a mother. They are the great keepers of our society and heads of our households.
If you are going to believe in the fairy tale of 'Mr. Right,' then you need to keep everything in perspective. Know the things that make you happy. Know the things that enable and/or hinder your growth.
Coming from a single parent household, I witnessed firsthand the strength and courage of the single mother. I always had my father in my life but my household was run by my mother and my grandmother. As a result, I have always had the utmost respect for women and have chosen to strongly convey that in my music.
Being in the public eye, I struggle to create and maintain romantic relationships. I am constantly faced with assumptions about who my significant other is, and it seems that there is always some speculation about my relationship status.
Whenever I am faced with someone spreading negativity in my relationship, I remember the old saying, 'Misery loves company.' I am also reminded to be mindful of the company you keep. Sometimes you cannot see a hater until you are happy. It is then that they demonstrate their negativity.
'Pretty Lady' is the conversation piece where you just need to compliment your lady. If you are in a club setting, and you just been eyeing a beautiful woman, this song came from me trying to compliment women and them turning their face up at me.
Racism is very prevalent and alive... in this country and in this world.
It's never my goal to throw any of my peers under the bus.
Frederico Pena is an amazing talented guitarist and producer.
I walked away from the Jive Records situation, but I still have a great relationship with a lot of the workers and a lot of people who were in that system that have moved on to other places. I felt like being there; it totally wasn't understood what the Raheem DeVaughn movement was about.
When you talk about the exchange of energy between performer and audience and audience and performer, I hope that I'm one of the best.
I think you have some artists who try to be as conscious as they can be.
It's my responsibility as an artist and public figure to put the right frequency out there.
I'm constantly reinventing myself. It's a constant thing that I do.
I've always been known for making socially conscious music in the midst of the love songs and the bedroom songs.
We are all on a journey to mastering our inner peace.
I feel like every artist has a place in their mind, this place where they exist artistically. And I just want to take people to mine, and my place is called Loveland. In Loveland, there's no war, and there's peace.
Every so often, you have a producer or a songwriter or both or a team that comes along and really reshapes and redefines sonically what music is and the interpretation of it to the masses.
I don't just make music for one audience.
I love women - all types, all colors, petite, plus size. But in particular, I was raised by black women, and I feel like there is just something beautiful about black women.
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