John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes

I don't think it's an artist's responsibility to be political all the time. I think your first responsibility as an artist is to make music that people will listen to and enjoy. However, I think that when you are able to say something that is moving and put it in a great song, then that is even better.

John Roger Stephens

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• What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

  

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• It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

  

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• I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.

  

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• I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

  

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• A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

  

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• I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.

  

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• Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

  

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• There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.

  

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• Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

  

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• People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.

  

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• They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.

  

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• I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.

  

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• Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

  

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• I think they have not learned over the years that the more you talk, the more I will want to beat you.

  

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• I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing.

  

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• One time I can stand fiddling in front of the mirror for an hour and another time I think: well hack, this is just the best it can get. Only if I have to go to work I really try to look fantastic.

  

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• I don't think it's an artist's responsibility to be political all the time. I think your first responsibility as an artist is to make music that people will listen to and enjoy. However, I think that when you are able to say something that is moving and put it in a great song, then that is even better.

  

  John Roger Stephens
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  • Time
  • Great