R. Kelly Quotes
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I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.
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I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.
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'The Notebook' was beautiful, and I was crying because its hero and heroine had died together.
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My greatest competition is, well, me.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time.
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I had a cyst on my tonsils, and I couldn't sing. I had to have an operation.
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out.
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I love that I can play around with all types of music.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
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As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only.
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I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.