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I played classical as a kid.

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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
Legends
Classical
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Kids
Children

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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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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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I have a great band, with very talented players, and we give everything we have every night.
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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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We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go.
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The fun part about collaborating is that you naturally just bounce off each other's energy and learn off each other.
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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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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 guess a lot of times pressure is put on something after it becomes big.
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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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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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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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There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.
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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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Music, to me, if it's good, it's good. That's all that matters.
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I've felt like my last name put pressure on me as an artist. If you're going to call yourself Legend, you'd better make some good-ass music.
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