Ne-Yo Quotes
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I've never done this from a standpoint of, 'I want to be famous.' I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing.
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I would've given my right arm to do something on the 'Ray' film, the movie about Ray Charles.
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Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.
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I like to learn through doing. Let me make a mistake, and then critique me on what I did so that I learn that way.
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I'm trying to escape the shackles of a pen and a pad. I've sat in sessions with Jay-Z where he doesn't write anything down. He'll come up with the most incredible triple entendre, all in his head - it's amazing.
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I've always been the person to look at any turmoil as temporary. I recall times where my mom was working five and six jobs, and there's still no food in the house.
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I'm the type of guy to put the water on the stove and then walk away and 10 seconds later be like, 'Come on, boil'!
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The story of 'Libra Scale,' the storyline was created first, and then the music was created around the story line.
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I needed to be sexier. I needed to be more hip. I needed to be more edgy and this and that. 'No, don't write that kind of song, write this type of song. No, don't work with that producer, work with this producer. No, don't wear those clothes, wear these clothes.' And I didn't want to be a puppet, you know?
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I grew up in Las Vegas. My mom worked in pretty much every casino on the Strip.
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Sammy was the only one that looked like me, so I naturally gravitated to him. Sammy made it cool to be black at a time when, let's just say it, it wasn't very cool to be black. His name was on the front of the building in lights, and he had to go in the back. But you never saw him sweat.
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I'm a rather multifaceted person - or at least I like to fashion myself as such - so my dreams are multifaceted. For example, I had a dream of winning a Grammy, right? I've done that three times over.
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Me and Drake gonna be neighbors if Donald Trump becomes president.
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Ms. Clinton - Mrs. Clinton, I should say - she's a favorite of mine.
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Via social media, I reached out, asking about relationships, dreams, hopes, fears, the whole gambit, and the stories that really resonated with me, I wrote songs about.
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Movies take a long time because movies take a long damn time to put work into. Whereas music, you don't have as much time. I didn't realize that.
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Early inspirations included Michael Jackson, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Lionel Richie... Those were the people I actually wound up studying just to hone my craft.
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I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.
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Let's make Holberton one of the biggest schools on the face of the planet.
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I dreamed of one day starring in a film. I've done that twice. Denzel Washington has done it countless times, so I still got some work to do.
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I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.
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As an artist, you know as a person in the public eye, period, you kind of have a responsibility to the younger kids that are watching and emulating what you do.
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Prince is the ultimate performer. Prince is that dude that's going to get on stage by himself, if he need to, but hold you in the palm of his hand. Like, you can't take your eyes off the man when he's on stage, and he could just be sitting there playing his guitar.
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I wrote a song that basically turned into a public service announcement for the fellas out there, like, 'Should you run into this type of woman, run for your life!' So the name of the song is 'Run,' featuring the rapper ScHoolboy Q. It's one of the standouts on the album, in my personal opinion.