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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.
John Legend
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John Legend
Age: 45
Born: 1978
Born: December 28
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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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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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The struggle for freedom and justice is now.
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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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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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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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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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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 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 only want to be associated with music that is high quality. That's my main criteria.
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As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.
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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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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 think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.
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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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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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I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary.
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Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.
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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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