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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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I do believe that part of us ending racism is us seeing each other's humanity and learning to love each other, even if we look different or worship differently or live differently.
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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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I only want to be associated with music that is high quality. That's my main criteria.
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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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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 keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.
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Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections
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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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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 guess a lot of times pressure is put on something after it becomes big.
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That's the evergreen nature of a great song. They can be resurrected. They can be covered. They can find new relevance due to changing circumstances in history.
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Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.
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As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.
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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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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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The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education
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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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I hear melodies and hooks all day. I've always been that way, since I was a kid.
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I'm pretty adventurous with food, so I'm not afraid to try anything.
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