John Legend Quotes - Page 6

• Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about two people from one writer's point of view.

  John Legend

  Vistas, Terreno, Dos

  Fuente: www.popsugar.com

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• I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

  John Legend

  Kings, Silly, School

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 23, 2006.

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• Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.

  John Legend

  Artist, Icons, Style

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• John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.

  John Legend

  Names, Calling, Legends

  "John Legend Reflects On His Early Days - When Kanye West Was Opening For 'Him'". Interview with John Ochoa, www.mtv.com. August 21, 2008.

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• I'm honestly not a great gift giver. I could give better - my girlfriends have always complained about that.

  John Legend

  Girlfriend, Giving, Giver

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• In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.

  John Legend

  Technology, Ties, Use

  "John Legend: 'A personal flying machine would be great'". Interview with Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2010.

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• Desde que tenía 6 años, siempre fui el protagonista de lo que hacía.

  John Legend

  Men, Legends, Fronts

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• Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways.

  John Legend

  People, Littles, Way

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• I gravitate toward people that are a little more outrageous than I am. And we complement each other well.

  John Legend

  People, Littles, Wells

  "John Legend talks on music, wedding, Kanye, Syria, more". Interview with The Associated Press, www.denverpost.com. September 10, 2013.

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• I think it's hard to really write a song that will educate someone because songs are meant to be ... you don't want to be too didactic in a song because it doesn't make for good music. And I think the role of songs can be to inspire people but there needs to education and prose to back that up.

  John Legend

  Canción, Escritura, Pensamiento

  "Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. with John Legend". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 4, 2008.

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• Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.

  John Legend

  New York, Rights, Victory

  "Lady Gaga, Pink, More React To New York Gay Marriage Bill" by Benjamin Wagner, www.mtv.com. June 25, 2011.

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• Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin, because you got to persevere despite the fact that people tell you you shouldn't do this or you shouldn't do that or you're not good enough or your style's too different. I've heard all of that stuff.

  John Legend

  Song, Determination, Writing

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

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• I'm pretty adventurous with food, so I'm not afraid to try anything.

  John Legend

  Trying, Adventurous, Not Afraid

  "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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• I know when things feel a little, like, intrusive and when they don't. I don't have a lot to hide. But I do sometimes think, don't share everything.

  John Legend

  Pensar, Pequeños, A Veces

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• People see me as pretty low key in a lot of ways. And for me, like, even choosing to be John Legend and to be who I am as a star, as an artist, it's a risk 'cause I - you know, I graduated from college and worked as a management consultant, and I could have had this very kind of buttoned-up life and worn suits to work every day.

  John Legend

  Stars, Artist, College

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• I do speak to kids a lot. I am very clear with them that not all of them should aspire to be me and not all of them should be aspire to be LeBron.

  John Legend

  Kids, Speak, Should

  "John Legend On Marriage, Music And 'Genius' Kanye West". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 31, 2013.

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• When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that, or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.

  John Legend

  Song, Writing, Rapper

  Interview with David Morris, www.askmen.com.

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• I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them. What I like to do with songs, is kind of throw a little curveball in the lyrics or in the arrangement, to kind of give it a little twist to it.

  John Legend

  Song, Giving, Twists

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons... It wasn't forced on me. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music. I never went through a period where I didn't want to do it.

  John Legend

  Mother, Years, Piano

  "R&B Artist John Legend: 'Once Again'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www-s4.npr.org. November 20, 2006.

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• My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

  John Legend

  Mother, Years, Piano

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

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• I never went through a period where I didn't want to play music. I've always loved it and it's always been a huge part of my life.

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  Play, Want, Periods

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.

  John Legend

  Pensamiento, Decisión, Importante

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

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• I think it's a bit of a myth that black Americans need one leader. We're not a monolith. And now that legal segregation and discrimination has been pretty much abolished there isn't the sort of universal mandate that a black leader would have. Black folks live in a wide variety of social situations right now.

  John Legend

  Thinking, Leader, Black

  "Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. with John Legend". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 4, 2008.

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• El tema que más me preocupa es la pobreza extrema. Creo que es algo que pasa desapercibido. Me gustaría que hubiera más historias sobre ello para conectar a la gente con lo que está ocurriendo. Para personalizarlo, para hacerlo real a la gente, para inspirarles a actuar.

  John Legend

  Real, Thinking, Sight

  "Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. with John Legend". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 4, 2008.

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• Music was my life...It was everything to me, even though I was in school majoring in English. I was still very focused on music and always finding ways to perform, so that was what set me up to want to become a recording artist.

  John Legend

  School, Artist, Want

  "John Legend Has The Realest Advice For College Students". Interview with Deepa Lakshmin, www.mtv.com. March 21, 2015.

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