John Legend Quotes

• The future started yesterday and we’re already late.

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• You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.

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• When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

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• Well, Jeff Buckley for me is one of the greatest singers I’ve ever heard. And the reason why is he has an amazing range, amazing emotional power in his voice. And the music he put around it also just had this passion and this soul to it and this spirit to it that very few artists have, and he passed at a very young age.

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• Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.

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• Well, I like songs that have like a little bit of quirkiness to them.

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• We weren’t allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.

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• We should care about what is going on in the world.

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• To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired, and that’s fun.

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• There’s a certain confidence that comes with being sure about the way the world works.

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• The most important thing about technology is that it can seamlessly work its way into your routine and your life.

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• The most I ever spent on technology is building a studio – I built one at home in Los Angeles. I can’t tell you how much exactly, but the whole process is very expensive.

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  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Home, Ever, Very, Studio

• Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

  John Legend

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  Tags in Finding, About, Pure

• Sometimes there’s that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come together in a way that brings me to tears.

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  Tags in Music, Energy

• My first attempt at a kiss was in fifth grade, but it didn’t go so well. Later, I used Boyz II Men and Jodeci songs to come on to girls. I had more success.

  John Legend

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  Tags in Girls, Songs, Men

• My first album, ‘Get Lifted,’ was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as the sonic choices, in the way that I sing and write songs. I have always had that as part of my background and part of my influence when I am making music.

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  Tags in First, Choicest, Sing, Always

• My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn’t listen to it until my teenage years.

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  Tags in Teenage, Listen

• Musicians are in-season all the time.

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  Tags in Musicians, Time

• Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.

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  Tags in Icon, Artist

• London is a good fashion city. They’re a little more daring. There’s the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.

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John Legend (56)

Birth:	28th December, 1978
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Singer

About

John Roger Stephens, known professionally as John Legend was born in Springfield, Ohio, USA. He is an American singer, songwriter and actor. He studied English with an emphasis on African-American literature from the University of Pennsylvania. His albums list shown below: Get Lifted (singles: "Used to Love U", "Ordinary People", "Number One", and "So High"), Once Again (singles: "Save Room", "Heaven", "Stereo", and "Show Me"), Evolver (singles: "Green Light", "If You're Out There", and "Everybody Knows"), Love in the Future (singles: "Made to Love" and "All of Me"), and Darkness and Light (singles: "Love Me Now", "Penthouse Floor", and "Surefire"). His role in several films include: Loverboy, Soul Men, and La La Land. For his solo work, he earned a Billboard Hot 100 number-one single with "All of Me" in 2013. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2015 for writing the song "Glory" from the film Selma. He has also won ten Grammy Awards and a Golden Globe Award.

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