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 think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the 'honesty' of the story.
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It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit.
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No one blamed the victim. I worry about the walking wounded.
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But 'Playboy' was liberating. I was drawn to it and went for it full throttle.
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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.
