Top 100 Mary J. Blige Quotes
#1. One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.
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#2. I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.
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#3. Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen.
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#4. So many people are like, 'I'm perfect.' I'm so imperfect; that's why I'm able to let everything out and let people see everything. 'Cause I'm just a mess like every other person that's a mess out there.
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#5. When you know what pain is, and when you have to make a choice, you learn that it is a decision. People think it's a fairytale thing, love and happiness, but you have to work hard. And then - you feel it deeply.
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#6. It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.
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#7. Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations.
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#9. You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.
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#10. I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet.
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#11. You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.
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#12. You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.
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#13. Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.
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#14. I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.
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#16. My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me.
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#17. Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.
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#18. I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'
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#19. I'm hoping that my entrepreneurial side will have me at a place where I don't have to do anything. That's what I'm striving for.
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#20. It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.
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#21. I think women should band together to get us more respect in all the businesses that we're in because, you know, if we turn 40, we're nothing and nobody. We all should band together and just say we're not gonna go down like that.
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#22. Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!
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#23. Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.
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#24. I'm going down! Because you ain't around, baby, my whole world's upside down!
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#26. The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.
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#27. I just want fans to walk away knowing that no matter what's going on, no matter how happy you are, no matter how sad you are, we did it. We're strong in this. We've come a long way, and life is not just one thing.
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#28. Cause I'm no better than you, you, or you. And I can't get on no throne and preach, 'cause I'm not God.
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#29. I truly enjoy Bono. I think he is an amazing person; I love him.
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#30. Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.
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#31. That's the message I want to give to every up-and-coming artist: Do everything that is going to help you later. If you clone somebody else, that's all they're gonna keep wanting from you.
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#32. When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.
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#33. The important thing is to realize that no matter what people's opinions may be, they're only just that - people's opinions. You have to believe in your heart what you know to be true about yourself. And let that be that.
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#34. I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.
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#35. I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.
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#36. I don't know what kind of God the rest of y'all are serving, but the God I serve says, 'Mary, you need to be the hottest thing this year, and I'm gonna make sure you're doing that.'
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#37. I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.
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#38. I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.
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#39. You have to have a plan. Everything has to be planned. For me, I start with the title of my album, before I even start with the songs. I write down different things that I want album to say, and then the songs come from the different words.
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#40. The streets respect me because I kept it real with me. You gotta be real with yourself, and the streets recognize game.
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#41. My main exercise is cardio. The treadmill is fine, but running outdoors gives me the best results. I try to log 6 to 8 miles a week. I could be in the worst mood, but when I do my cardio, I feel much, much better.
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#43. Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don't let it consume you; don't let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.
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#44. It's that first step-getting out the door-that's the toughest. If you can do that, you've already won.
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#45. Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.
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#46. I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.
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#47. I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.
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#48. When I was little, like 7 to 15, there was nothing I wanted to do but go to church and go to school.
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#49. You have to create different things, either through lighting or changing the format of the songs and how you're going to sing them, and even sometimes props.
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#50. You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.
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#53. You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it.
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#54. As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me; they were always scared that somebody was going to take me.
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#56. I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.
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#57. My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.
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#58. Yonkers made me strong and made me believe in myself, because so many people would doubt you and not believe. There are people that would believe in you, but the environment was so harsh, nobody wanted you to get out, you know?
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#59. I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.
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#60. When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward.
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#61. I believe that anything man himself can do for me, God can do for me in a greater way. I decided to pray and to seek God on my own. I just stayed in The Word. And it worked.
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#62. In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different.
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#63. Two hurt people can not help each other. They can not.
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#64. It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.
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#65. I believe there should be no more drama, but it's everywhere you go. It's just about how you get out. You've gotta bob and weave because it's everywhere. How do I keep the drama low? It's about using your head.
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#66. The only person that I'm really feeling - because she has an identity of her own, even though she has listened to Mary J. Blige - is Jill Scott.
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#67. I suffered from self hatred so much. It's like I didn't want to look like that any more. I didn't to feel like that any more. It had to be another way.
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#68. Music is where my love is. I don't think the acting thing is going to start outweighing that, but I think it's going to start being a good chunk of something I want to do.
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#69. When you wake up and learn to love yourself and want to take care of yourself, things are harder because people don't like the idea of it. But when you get in trouble, it gives people things to talk about.
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#70. I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.
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#71. In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.
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#72. I can go out raw with nothing, and my fans would still be happy, but I feel that I owe it to them to give them almost like a Broadway musical at this point in my life. I have to give them something more, so I do have to think of different ways to do it.
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#73. Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.
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#74. When you're going to do whatever you're going to do, you have to get your, put your mind into it.
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#75. By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.
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#76. Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.
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#77. When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.
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#79. I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great.
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#80. There's not enough time to be disrespecting ... Life is too short.
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#81. I like what I see when I'm looking at me when I'm walking past the mirror,
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#82. There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.
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#83. I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.
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#85. The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.
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#86. If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.
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#88. I'm a child of God. God is my mommy, my daddy. That's the only thing that'll keep my head up. If I don't remember who I am in him, I'm done.
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#89. In your life there's peaks and valleys and sometimes we regress, and we don't even know we regress. You just have to learn how to accept all of your mistakes and learn to love yourself again.
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#90. I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up.
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#91. I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.
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#92. You know a lot, but you don't know everything.
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#93. I mean, I know my heart is not clean, and your heart is not clean, and none of our urban hearts are clean. But you can be washed again.
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#95. When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.
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#96. Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live.
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#97. I didn't know how to show my self love, and I didn't want anyone else to hurt me. So my tough girl attitude was like, 'I'm not having it.'
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#98. When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.
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#99. I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'
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#100. Don't go a full day or night without washing your face. You have to get all the dirt and makeup out of your pores.
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