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Experience is a great teacher.

John Legend

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John Legend
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: December 28
Actor
Film Actor
Keyboardist
Musician
Pianist
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Springfield
Ohio
John Roger Stephens
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When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that, or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.
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I was in an a cappella group in school, so it particularly helped me keep my piano chops up.
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I think you're always policing yourself by trying to do what you think would be cool and accepted by other people, until you start to figure out who you really want to be. Growing up is an ongoing push-and-pull of you being yourself and you performing to what society expects you to be.
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All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place
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For me, no matter how much money you want to make off of singing, no matter what kind of fame you want to make, achieve, the most important thing to me is making music that you're proud of, making music that comes from you, comes from an authentic place in you.
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I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary.
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Music wasn't forced on me [in my childhood]. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music.
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Artists in general never stay in the same place, we keep growing. It's still you, you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.
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My head’s under water but I’m breathing fine
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We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go.
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We're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's difficult for people to persist through that.
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Music, to me, if it's good, it's good. That's all that matters.
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John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.
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I thought it would be funny to take a photo in the White House bathroom, I take pictures everywhere I go, but I don't think I can top that one.
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I gravitate toward people that are a little more outrageous than I am. And we complement each other well.
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But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.
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Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.
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I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.
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That's the evergreen nature of a great song. They can be resurrected. They can be covered. They can find new relevance due to changing circumstances in history.
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I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.
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