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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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John Legend
Age: 45
Born: 1978
Born: December 28
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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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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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Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections
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The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.
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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'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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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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Music, to me, if it's good, it's good. That's all that matters.
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I played classical as a kid.
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I always felt that rap didn't cause crime it just reflected it.
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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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You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.
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The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education
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As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.
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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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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 was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.
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I just want it to be timeless and timely at the same time.
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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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Experience is a great teacher.
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