Top 100 Quotes About Mary J Blige
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. It's the oddest match: Mary J. Blige and Julianne Hough! But we became so close.
Julianne Hough
#4. 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.
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#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.
Q-Tip
#11. I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige.
Robin Thicke
#12. 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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#13. If I could ever be on a Missy Elliott record, I could then die. Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige - I love hearing them interviewed, I love the way they talk about their art. They're very self-assured, they're funny, they're inviting. I love it.
Neko Case
#14. I would say my greatest musical influences have been Ella Fitzgerald and Mary J. Blige.
Estelle
#15. It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video and I told her whenever you get to jump to the big screen I'd love to come with you and she honored that.
Blair Underwood
#16. And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.
Bryan Ferry
#17. I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music.
Boz Scaggs
#18. The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.
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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.
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#23. 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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#24. 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.
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#25. As long as I live, I know I'll have feelings. And that's what I'm passionate about.
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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.
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#29. I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes.
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#30. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#32. 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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#34. You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.
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#35. I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.
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#36. 'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
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#37. For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself.
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#38. I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet.
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#39. If you're not confident in yourself, you're going to waver. I've wavered, and I've lost.
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#40. 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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#41. 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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#42. 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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#43. I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.
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#45. My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me.
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#46. 'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.
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#47. 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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#48. 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.
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#49. I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'
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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. 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.
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#54. I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because ... maybe ... that's the thing I've been searching for.
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#55. 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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#56. My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest.
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#57. Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.
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#58. 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.
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#59. I'm going down! Because you ain't around, baby, my whole world's upside down!
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#62. 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.
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#63. The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.
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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. I truly enjoy Bono. I think he is an amazing person; I love him.
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#67. Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends.
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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. 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.
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#71. 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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#72. 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.
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#73. 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.
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#74. 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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#75. 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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#76. 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.
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#77. 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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#78. I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.
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#79. 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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#80. 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.
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#81. 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.
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#82. 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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#83. I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to yourself.
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#84. I never do any album to beat it. I do it to extend it.
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#85. I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.
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#86. 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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#87. 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.
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#88. It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes ... It's life.
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#89. 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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#91. 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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#92. 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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#93. 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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#94. 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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#95. 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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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.
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#99. If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'
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