John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes
It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.
Quotes to Explore
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.
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I listen mostly to classical music.
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Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state.
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We didn't really have television when I was a kid. Around 30, I discovered films and started systematically catching up. I collect interesting documentaries and films, and watch a few nights a week.
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Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
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When a writer makes something, it's theirs forever. That is the magic for me.
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It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.
