R. Kelly Quotes
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You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.
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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 have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me.
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When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club – we hooped together in Chicago – he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.
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I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.
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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 spend like $2 million a year on Chinese food and pizza for ten people in the studio who don't sing or produce.
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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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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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My fans have always loved my metaphors.
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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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I have Marvin Gaye's driver's license. His wife sent it to me, because she really loved my 'Happy People' record. She said that she thought it represented the sprit of her husband. The license is from California. I get inspired every time I look at it.
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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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People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through.
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I love blues. My grandfather did blues.
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'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.
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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 believe the people that buy my music believes in me.
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I have always been infatuated with country music.
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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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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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If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.
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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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I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person.