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At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.
John Legend
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John Legend
Age: 45
Born: 1978
Born: December 28
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Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways.
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I think it's hard to really write a song that will educate someone because songs are meant to be ... you don't want to be too didactic in a song because it doesn't make for good music. And I think the role of songs can be to inspire people but there needs to education and prose to back that up.
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I know when things feel a little, like, intrusive and when they don't. I don't have a lot to hide. But I do sometimes think, don't share everything.
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I'm pretty adventurous with food, so I'm not afraid to try anything.
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As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.
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Musicians are in-season all the time.
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In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.
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People see me as pretty low key in a lot of ways. And for me, like, even choosing to be John Legend and to be who I am as a star, as an artist, it's a risk 'cause I - you know, I graduated from college and worked as a management consultant, and I could have had this very kind of buttoned-up life and worn suits to work every day.
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There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.
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Experience is a great teacher.
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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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The weirdest thing about Hillary Clinton's email 'scandal' is finding out some of our senators still don't use email.
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I guess a lot of times pressure is put on something after it becomes big.
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I have a great band, with very talented players, and we give everything we have every night.
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The issue I focus on the most is extreme poverty. I think it's kind of out of sight out of mind. I wish there would be more stories about that to connect people to what's happening. To personalize it, to make it real to people, to inspire them to action.
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If a few people decide not to buy my album it's really not going to change my life that much.
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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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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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I think the most important thing is that I'm making music that the people enjoy. So the fans, the people that are out there listening to music and consuming music, I want them to enjoy it and love it. And so that's more important to me than Grammys.
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I always felt that rap didn't cause crime it just reflected it.
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