John Legend Quotes - Page 5

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• Sometimes success is just limited to festival circuit.

  John Legend

  Festivals, Sometimes, Circuits

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I think the most important thing is that I'm making music that the people enjoy. So the fans, the people that are out there listening to music and consuming music, I want them to enjoy it and love it. And so that's more important to me than Grammys.

  John Legend

  Thinking, People, Listening

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• Some people, you know, should just go to college and do what they do and have a great job and not worry about trying to be famous as a singer. It's not for everyone.

  John Legend

  Jobs, College, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The fun part about collaborating is that you naturally just bounce off each other's energy and learn off each other.

  John Legend

  Fun, Energy, Bounce

  "John Legend: 'I thought it would be funny to take a photo in the White House bathroom'". Interview with Denise Cheong and Charlene Fang, travel.cnn.com. March 9, 2011.

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• Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.

  John Legend

  Hip Hop, Hips, Collaboration

  "John Legend: 'I thought it would be funny to take a photo in the White House bathroom'". Interview with Denise Cheong and Charlene Fang, travel.cnn.com. March 9, 2011.

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• There's so much music out there, and so many different styles that I've been influenced by, so each album reflects some of that knowledge or influence that I've had.

  John Legend

  Style, Different, Albums

  "John Legend: 'I thought it would be funny to take a photo in the White House bathroom'". Interview with Denise Cheong and Charlene Fang, travel.cnn.com. March 9, 2011.

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• There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song.

  John Legend

  Song, Writing, Giving

  "John Legend gets down and dirty". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. October 30, 2008.

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• If a few people decide not to buy my album it's really not going to change my life that much.

  John Legend

  People, Albums, Changing My Life

  "John Legend gets down and dirty". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. October 30, 2008.

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• In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.

  John Legend

  Football, Athlete, School

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• Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.

  John Legend

  Kings, Kids, Rights

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• Recently, John and I got to go to Selma and perform it on the same bridge that Martin Luther King walked over. Once a landmark of a divided nation, the spirit of this bridge now for all people regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or social status. This bridge was built on hope and welded with compassion. Common

  John Legend

  Kings, Compassion, Race

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• I wrote the song "Show Me" as a prayer to God asking simple, honest questions about life and death and why there is so much suffering in the world. As I grew with the song I realized I shouldn't limit these questions solely to God; I should ask those questions of others and of myself.

  John Legend

  Song, Prayer, Live Life

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• I thought it would be funny to take a photo in the White House bathroom, I take pictures everywhere I go, but I don't think I can top that one.

  John Legend

  Thinking, White, House

  Interview with Denise Cheong and Charlene Fang, travel.cnn.com. March 9, 2011.

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• I listen to all those kinds of music, from classic soul to hip-hop to Brazilian music to, you know, jazz to indie to alternative... And for me, when I'm making music, it's all in my head, and all those influences in my head. So if something comes to me that's a reference from a different genre then people are used to hearing from me, I'm not afraid to go there with it.

  John Legend

  People, Hip Hop, Soul

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.

  John Legend

  Piano, Track, Legends

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• Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

  John Legend

  Artist, People, Records

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• You have to be careful when it comes to copyrights, whether just sounding like or feeling like something is enough to say you violated their copyrights because there's a lot of music out there, and there's a lot of things that feel like other things that are influenced by other things. And you don't want to get into that thing where all of us are suing each other all the time because this and that song feels like another song.

  John Legend

  Song, Feelings, Suing

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

  John Legend

  Artist, Singers, Working With Others

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• I guess a lot of times pressure is put on something after it becomes big.

  John Legend

  Pressure, Bigs

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I would tell myself, "Love yourself and don't be afraid to take risks." I was often afraid to take risks, socially, because I was young and a little more shy and still figuring out who I wanted to be. Sometimes I look back and think, "I should have just been bolder and more confident."

  John Legend

  Love You, Thinking, Self Love

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Well, I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them.

  John Legend

  Song, Littles, Wells

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary.

  John Legend

  Football, Games, Focus

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• I think people relate to the music because I have a sense of empathy, and I think I have a good understanding about relationships, and I talk about them in a real, honest way

  John Legend

  Real, Thinking, People

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• Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I've ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age.

  John Legend

  Passion, Artist, Emotional

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.

  John Legend

  Hip Hop, Black, Age

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