Mary J. Blige Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.

  Mary J. Blige

  Respect, Giving, Demand

• One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.

  Mary J. Blige

  People, Giving, One Day

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May 2006.

• Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

  Mary J. Blige

  Music, Song, People

• My main exercise is cardio. The treadmill is fine, but running outdoors gives me the best results. I try to log 6 to 8 miles a week. I could be in the worst mood, but when I do my cardio, I feel much, much better.

  Mary J. Blige

  Running, Exercise, Giving

• That's the message I want to give to every up-and-coming artist: Do everything that is going to help you later. If you clone somebody else, that's all they're gonna keep wanting from you.

  Mary J. Blige

  Artist, Giving, Want

• I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.

  Mary J. Blige

  People, Giving, Trying

• There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.

  Mary J. Blige

  People, Giving, Want

• Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.

  Mary J. Blige

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Doors

• I can go out raw with nothing, and my fans would still be happy, but I feel that I owe it to them to give them almost like a Broadway musical at this point in my life. I have to give them something more, so I do have to think of different ways to do it.

  Mary J. Blige

  Thinking, Giving, Musical

  "Mary J. Blige Interview THE HELP". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 10, 2011.

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