John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes
It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.John Roger Stephens
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.
M. Ward -
If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
Carl Perkins -
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.
Nancy Allen -
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.
Wale -
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Barbara Lynn
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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'.
Yuna -
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.
La'Porsha Renae -
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.
Becky G -
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
Fab Five Freddy -
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.
Adam Driver -
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
Ice Cube -
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.
F. Sionil Jose -
In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
La India -
Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
Karl Lagerfeld -
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.
Yo-Yo Ma -
Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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Most of my job life has had to do with welfare, first helping people find work and then as an administrator. The earlier experience was more direct and satisfying, and I enjoy thinking that a bunch of people somewhere are doing better today than they might have done if not for me.
Gail Carson Levine -
My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.
Zach Condon -
You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.
Kim Stanley Robinson -
I don't have Twitter, but Lady Gaga tweeted at me - like, reposted an interview where I was fangirling - and wrote, 'Katherine' with a love heart. And I kind of freaked out a little bit.
Katherine Langford -
Owl,' said Rabbit shortly, 'you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is easy thinking to be done in this Forest - and when I say thinking I mean thinking - you and I must do it.
A. A. Milne -
It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.
John Roger Stephens