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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.
John Legend
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John Legend
Age: 45
Born: 1978
Born: December 28
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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'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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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 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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I hear melodies and hooks all day. I've always been that way, since I was a kid.
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Experience is a great teacher.
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We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go.
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I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.
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I want you to live the best life you can. You can be world-changers. .. Pursue this life of love with focus and passion and ambition and courage. Give it your all. And that will be your path to true success.
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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 was in an a cappella group in school, so it particularly helped me keep my piano chops up.
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The struggle for freedom and justice is now.
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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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I'm pretty adventurous with food, so I'm not afraid to try anything.
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If you want the film [La La Land ] to represent all things jazz, it does not. You'll be disappointed by that. But, if you just see it as one guy's point of view, one filmmaker's point of view, and one story among many stories that can be told about jazz, then it's not as much of an issue.
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My head’s under water but I’m breathing fine
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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.
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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 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 thought it would be funny to take a photo in the White House bathroom, I take pictures everywhere I go, but I don't think I can top that one.
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