All Of Me John Legend Quotes

#1. The struggle for freedom and justice is now.

John Legend

#2. I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.

John Legend

#3. 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.

John Legend

#4. I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.

Ben E. King

#5. We should care about what is going on in the world.

John Legend

#6. When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that, or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.

John Legend

#7. 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.

John Legend

#8. I don't actually go to a lot of games because I think football on TV is better. Even though I'm pretty busy, I watch 90 percent of Ohio State's games.

John Legend

#9. I care more about the fans in general, just making sure they enjoy what I do. And then also I kind of had this kind of ideal of the kind of music I want to make and what I'm aiming for kind of creatively and just the quality of the music that I'm trying to make. And I have that in my head.

John Legend

#10. Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about.

John Legend

#11. Experience is a great teacher.

John Legend

#12. My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.

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#13. 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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#14. I like cool jackets - a nice fall or winter coat. You can get a lot of use out of it, and you'll wear it frequently, so it can really set the tone of your uniform for the season.

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#15. I do speak to kids a lot. I am very clear with them that not all of them should aspire to be me and not all of them should be aspire to be LeBron.

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#16. My line is probably a little more conservative than some of my compatriots in the business. But again, I think it's all - like, it just - it comes down to me knowing who I am and knowing how I want to be seen in the world, how I want to discuss things.

John Legend

#17. 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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#18. 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.

John Legend

#19. To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music, makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired, and that's fun.

John Legend

#20. Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.

John H. Alexander

#21. 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.

John Legend

#22. I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.

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#23. I don't love the idea of three superstars coming together to form a dream team, I'd rather teams are built more organically, just as a fan it's more interesting to see.

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#24. I feel like spirituality definitely comes through in my music, but I don't make any specific efforts to make it that way.

John Legend

#25. Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.

John Berger

#26. I don't think I'm craving any more fame. But success and being recognized for making great work all around the world, I think it's a great thing.

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#27. I'm pretty adventurous with food, so I'm not afraid to try anything.

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#28. When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

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#29. My head's under water but I'm breathing fine

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#30. 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.

John Legend

#31. Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections

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#32. We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.

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#33. We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.

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#34. What Gutfreund said has become a legend at Salomon Brothers and a visceral part of its corporate identity. He said: One hand, one million dollars, no tears.

Michael Lewis

#35. I wrote the song "Show Me" as a prayer to God asking simple, honest questions about life and death and why there is so much suffering in the world. As I grew with the song I realized I shouldn't limit these questions solely to God; I should ask those questions of others and of myself.

John Legend

#36. 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.

John Legend