R. Kelly Quotes
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I love that I can play around with all types of music.
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I gave a Christmas party last year - well, two Christmases ago - where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn't perform as R. Kelly. I performed the Sam Cooke show from 1964, when he performed at the Copacabana.
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I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.
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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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In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also.
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I did 'Love Letter' and 'Write Me Back,' and those were fun albums for me to do because they took me back to music I love.
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I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of singing.
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When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.
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Before I can finish one song, another is knocking on my door in my head.
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I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child.
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I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
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I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.
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I have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me.
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I will always do R. Kelly – I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
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Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt like an alien. I felt like an outcast. I felt like, 'What is going to happen to me?'
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Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
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I have always been infatuated with country music.
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To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it.
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I wanna roll it, roll it, roll it, roll it. Is all I wanna do, for you baby. Girl, it's something kind of sexy. Goin' on about you babe.
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I don't want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want.
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My fans have always loved my metaphors.
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My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.
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Soon as I see her walk up in the club, I'm a flirt. Winking eyes at me, when I roll up on them dubs, I'm a flirt. Sometimes when I'm with my chick on the low, I'm a flirt. And when she's wit her man looking at me, damn right, I'm a flirt.
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I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse.