R. Kelly Quotes
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Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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I'm 43 now. I've reached the point where I really can't care what anyone thinks. Of course, I do. I'm an actress. I'm totally insecure, but I'm trying to stick to my guns about what is important to me, and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks I should or shouldn't do.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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I like music a lot.
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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I love funk and soul and Motown.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.
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We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
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You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.
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I still don’t have any real interest in painting. I haven’t spoken about it either. I paint for my foundation.. to sell my work for charity. I can’t ask anyone to support or praise my paintings. I’m not a beggar. Tomorrow even if I have nothing at all, I’ll do something or the other, but I won’t beg.
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Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.
