Mary J. Blige Quotes
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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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I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.
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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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Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen.
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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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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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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 like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.
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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 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 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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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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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 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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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.
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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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There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.
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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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Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.
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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 had to learn how to trust my gut. Trust what I know to be right... not right, but not waver on who I am. Know who I am, know what I want, and know it. Not waver on it and be secure in that. And I still struggle with it. But I really... I can't be moved. You can't move me, and that all comes with loving myself, and I'm like my best buddy.