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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.
John Legend
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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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I gravitate toward people that are a little more outrageous than I am. And we complement each other well.
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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 was in an a cappella group in school, so it particularly helped me keep my piano chops up.
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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 don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.
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As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.
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Sometimes I just think people are haters. And if they're haters, you can listen to what they have to say but you have to take it with a grain of salt.
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The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.
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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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Experience is a great teacher.
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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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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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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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A just society is not one built on fear or repression or vengeance or exclusion, but one built on love. Love for our families. Love for our neighbors. Love for the least among us. Love for those who look different or worship differently. Love for those we don't even know.
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J. Ivy is a brilliant man with an incredible voice and a way with words. I've known him for over a decade and owe my stage name to him believing in me back then before I even had a record deal. I'm excited for him to share his truth with the world.
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The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education
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In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.
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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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I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.
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