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I don't get to listen to music for fun very often a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.
John Legend
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John Legend
Age: 45
Born: 1978
Born: December 28
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As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.
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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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The struggle for freedom and justice is now.
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Experience is a great teacher.
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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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I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.
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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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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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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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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 was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.
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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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No matter how big or successful and famous you become, if you do that, that's the most fulfilling thing, is making music that you love and that you're proud of.
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I hear melodies and hooks all day. I've always been that way, since I was a kid.
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If I collaborate with people, ideas...they take interesting turns and twists, and I'm excited for that and that process and excited to see what we come up with.
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I think it's a bit of a myth that black Americans need one leader. We're not a monolith. And now that legal segregation and discrimination has been pretty much abolished there isn't the sort of universal mandate that a black leader would have. Black folks live in a wide variety of social situations right now.
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I do believe that part of us ending racism is us seeing each other's humanity and learning to love each other, even if we look different or worship differently or live differently.
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The main focus for me is not trying to find duet partners. It's about just making great songs. I want most of my album to be in my voice, because it's my point of view.
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We should care about what is going on in the world.
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Some people, you know, should just go to college and do what they do and have a great job and not worry about trying to be famous as a singer. It's not for everyone.
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