R. Kelly Quotes
You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.
Quotes to Explore
-
The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.
-
A great painting is a great painting.
-
During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
-
I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
-
We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
-
Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
-
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
-
People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
-
I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
-
I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.
-
Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
-
It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
-
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
-
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
-
Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
-
The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
-
One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
-
Time is valuable; people are busy.
-
In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.
-
People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.
-
I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
-
It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
-
The anger came creeping back like the leak from a dripping water tank, the fall of each individual drop passing almost unnoticed until I realized I was soaked with the emotion.
-
You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.
