R. Kelly Quotes
I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
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Free love sounds great.
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As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.
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I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.
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I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
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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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I was a big music fan, but I never bought a bunch of records or was very educated, I guess, on who was who or what was what.
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Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.
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I guess, for me, what started me getting real excited about music was the New York punk and new-wave scene. All those bands looked back to the Velvet Underground and the Stooges and the Modern Lovers as well. But that was back when Television were punk, and the Talking Heads were punk.
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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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I think the '70s are always inspiring to me. I was born then, so I have a lot of memories about how my parents were and what kinds of movies I was watching.
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Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.
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I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.
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I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
