Mary J. Blige Quotes
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I listen to gospel music.
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It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.
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Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.
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I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.
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I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that.
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When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward.
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I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'
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I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.
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I do consider myself part of black history.
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I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.
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I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.
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You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.
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You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.
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I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'
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Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do.
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When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply.
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Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations.
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I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.
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When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.
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Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.
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I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.
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So as long as I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, I'm able to say I'm having some growing pains. Because in order to sustain where you are once you made such a breakthrough that everyone is looking at you, now everyone is like, 'Ooh, is she gonna make a mistake?' Yes, I'm going to make a mistake. Yes, I'm still gonna do things.
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I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.
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Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.