Mary J. Blige Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• 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

• It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.

  Mary J. Blige

  Song, Mistake, Blood

• In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different.

  Mary J. Blige

  Song, People, Worry

• My career doesn't get harder because when you have something to share, you have something to share. And when it's a trial or a situation that you triumph out of, you have to - because this is the relationship I started with my fans on the My Life album in 1994. You have to share in order for people to see how you came through it, or how you're dealing with having thoughts of doubting yourself. What songs are gonna help you? What lyrics are gonna pull you out of your slump?

  Mary J. Blige

  Song, People, Doubt

  Source: www.elle.com

• The fact is that everyone at the labels wants to do what everyone else is doing. You have to look like her; you have to be like her; you have to sing like her, and no one can express themselves. I look at Rihanna and I am so proud of her. She speaks loudly! You have to stand up and clap. She expresses herself through fashion. She actually can sing. And her songs mean something, even to me, you know?

  Mary J. Blige

  Fashion, Song, Mean

  Source: www.elle.com

• I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.

  Mary J. Blige

  Song, Real, People

• I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

  Mary J. Blige

  Song, Therapists, Heard

• You have to have a plan. Everything has to be planned. For me, I start with the title of my album, before I even start with the songs. I write down different things that I want album to say, and then the songs come from the different words.

  Mary J. Blige

  Song, Writing, Titles

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

• You have to create different things, either through lighting or changing the format of the songs and how you're going to sing them, and even sometimes props.

  Mary J. Blige

  Song, Different, Sometimes

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

• When I`m going to do a Christmas album I had to put my mind in Christmas mode. I had to go back to being a child and remembering all of that. When I go to do a project, I'm serious about it, so I wrap my world around it, and it becomes Christmastime for me and I'm singing songs like it's Christmas day.

  Mary J. Blige

  Song, Children, Mind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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