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I played classical as a kid.

John Legend

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John Legend
Age: 45
Born: 1978
Born: December 28
Actor
Film Actor
Keyboardist
Musician
Pianist
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Television Actor
Springfield
Ohio
John Roger Stephens
John Stephens
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Classical
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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.
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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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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.
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I've written good love songs when I have been in love and I've written good love songs when I haven't.
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There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.
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Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.
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I don't really marinate in anybody's album because I don't really want to sound like anybody else when I put my album out. So I'd rather not even be tempted to listen to a bunch of other stuff with any degree of emersion in it, cause I just don't want to sound like anything else, so I kinda focus on my own music.
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I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.
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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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I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.
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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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Every artist wants some sort of feedback, because you make this music and you hope people love it and you want to hear if they love it and what they love about it, what their favorite song is, what they think the next single should be. I like to hear those 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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Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?
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Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections
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