Top 100 Blige Mary Quotes
#1. I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.
Mary J. Blige
#2. The streets respect me because I kept it real with me. You gotta be real with yourself, and the streets recognize game.
Mary J. Blige
#3. I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.
Mary J. Blige
#4. I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.
Mary J. Blige
#5. I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.
Mary J. Blige
#6. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#7. I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
Mary J. Blige
#8. I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do.
Mary J. Blige
#9. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#10. I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.
Mary J. Blige
#11. 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.'
Mary J. Blige
#12. I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself.
Mary J. Blige
#13. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#14. It's sad that a lot of identities are lost and a lot of careers are lost because there's sort of a clone thing going on.
Mary J. Blige
#15. I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.
Mary J. Blige
#16. I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that.
Mary J. Blige
#17. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#18. This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think you're better than them. But I want to continue to let people know that I'm no better and no worse, I'm just like you.
Mary J. Blige
#19. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#20. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#21. Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.
Mary J. Blige
#22. I truly enjoy Bono. I think he is an amazing person; I love him.
Mary J. Blige
#23. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#24. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#25. I have a song called 'Decisions' that features Jamie Foxx, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Common. It's about people who have made a decision to really stand by you as friends.
Busta Rhymes
#26. You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.
Mary J. Blige
#27. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#28. 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?
Mary J. Blige
#29. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#30. I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.
Mary J. Blige
#32. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#33. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#35. God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.
Mary J. Blige
#37. Mary J. Blige is the Queen Latifah character. Her voice in this movie [Rock of ages] is, she just gives it this incredible warmth, and she's just this person who blows out of the screen. She's just incredible.
Adam Shankman
#38. If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'
Mary J. Blige
#39. The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.
Mary J. Blige
#40. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#41. When I was little, like 7 to 15, there was nothing I wanted to do but go to church and go to school.
Mary J. Blige
#42. Hip hop has been an integral part of my life and my whole career. I started off doing videos with Ice Cube, and Dre, and Mary J. Blige, and TLC. So I've been involved in hip hop since the beginning.
F. Gary Gray
#43. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#44. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#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.
Mary J. Blige
#46. It's that first step-getting out the door-that's the toughest. If you can do that, you've already won.
Mary J. Blige
#47. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#49. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#50. It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes ... It's life.
Mary J. Blige
#51. It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.
Mary J. Blige
#52. If you're not confident in yourself, you're going to waver. I've wavered, and I've lost.
Mary J. Blige
#53. I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet.
Mary J. Blige
#54. For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself.
Mary J. Blige
#55. 'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
Mary J. Blige
#56. No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.
Mary J. Blige
#57. I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.
Mary J. Blige
#58. You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.
Mary J. Blige
#60. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#61. I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.
Mary J. Blige
#62. There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.
Mary J. Blige
#63. I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.
Mary J. Blige
#64. You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.
Mary J. Blige
#65. It's the oddest match: Mary J. Blige and Julianne Hough! But we became so close.
Julianne Hough
#66. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#67. I was born in Toronto and studied with the National Ballet of Canada. I went to school to study dance, slept on the floor, ate nothing, waitressed - and then there was a Mary J. Blige audition.
Laurieann Gibson
#68. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#69. As long as I live, I know I'll have feelings. And that's what I'm passionate about.
Mary J. Blige
#70. I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.
Mary J. Blige
#71. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#72. I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.
Mary J. Blige
#73. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#74. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#75. I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.
Ashthon Jones
#76. It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.
Mary J. Blige
#77. I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.
Mary J. Blige
#78. One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out.
Chaka Khan
#81. I'm going down! Because you ain't around, baby, my whole world's upside down!
Mary J. Blige
#82. I don't want no drama in my life, even though we have a little bit, but no more letting people control you. That's drama, because then you become something that you're not.
Mary J. Blige
#83. Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.
Mary J. Blige
#84. My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest.
Mary J. Blige
#85. 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!
Mary J. Blige
#86. I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because ... maybe ... that's the thing I've been searching for.
Mary J. Blige
#87. I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.
Mary J. Blige
#88. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#90. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#91. I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'
Mary J. Blige
#92. People know what they see but they don't know what's happening inside. If you want to know who you are and how you feel about yourself, take a look at your environment.
Mary J. Blige
#93. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#94. I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.
Patti LaBelle
#95. 'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.
Mary J. Blige
#96. My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me.
Mary J. Blige
#98. I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.
Mary J. Blige
#99. 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.
Mary J. Blige
#100. 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.
Mary J. Blige
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