Top 100 R Kelly Quotes
#1. I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
T.I.
#2. I'M PISSIN' ON GROWN WOMEN. R. KELLY DO IT TO CHILDREN.
Curtis Jackson
#3. R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
R. Kelly
#4. I never have, but I would love to pick R. Kelly's brain.
Mayer Hawthorne
#5. R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
R. Kelly
#6. I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
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#7. 'Trapped In The Closet' lives in a place on the earth on its own. It pays its own rent, it's its own landlord, it owns the building, it's everything. And it's so separate from what R. Kelly does; that's the great thing about it.
R. Kelly
#8. You got a handful of great guys - Ne-Yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You have a handful of great female artists. But for the most part the music world's changing and change is good. You have to make adjustments if you want to survive in that world.
Nas
#9. I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would do the late night underground gigs as well because it's always around those times that there was a hot song, either on the radio or in the clubs, it would just be simultaneous.
Deborah Cox
#10. My pump-up songs before I compete are not the usual. They're more girly songs. I love 'The Climb' by Miley Cyrus. It's about the journey and savoring every moment. I have 'The World's Greatest' by R. Kelly on my playlist, too.
Kacy Catanzaro
#11. Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
R. Kelly
#12. When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.
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#13. I gave a Christmas party last year - well, two Christmases ago - where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn't perform as R. Kelly. I performed the Sam Cooke show from 1964, when he performed at the Copacabana.
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#14. R. Kelly is one of the pioneers that I grew up listening to. If he's classified as an R&B artist, then I want to be like that. I don't want to have limits either.
Jeremih
#15. I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
R. Kelly
#16. I really just like breaking down the barriers, whether it means doing an album with Linkin Park, an album with R. Kelly, or playing at the Brandenburg Gate with Bono.
Jay-Z
#17. Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson ... all those guys. So it was kind of weird crossing over from that to pop and R&B, but you know, I love Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Usher, R. Kelly, Drake, Boyz II Men.
Austin Mahone
#18. I ain't never been the type of person out at the movies and holding hands and riding around listening to R. Kelly.
Young Jeezy
#19. 'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.
R. Kelly
#20. In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also.
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#21. I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.
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#22. I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
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#23. My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.
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#24. You are the world's greatest, when you say you are.
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#25. When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club - we hooped together in Chicago - he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.
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#26. I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child.
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#27. There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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#28. The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.
Thomas R. Kelly
#29. Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt like an alien. I felt like an outcast. I felt like, 'What is going to happen to me?'
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#30. You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director.
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#31. If we don't love ourselves, tell me, how can we love somebody else?
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#32. The depth of your struggle determines the height of your success.
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#33. I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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#34. 'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.
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#35. Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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#36. All the sounds on 'Trapped in the Closet' - the knockin' on the door, when I grab the keys, when I walk down the stairs, the car horns - we sampled all of those things around my house.
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#37. I'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either.
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#38. The forecast today is love all around.
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#39. If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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#40. We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.
Thomas R. Kelly
#41. I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them ... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.
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#42. My fans have always loved my metaphors.
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#43. I don't really know the story of the Pied Piper. I don't read stories, first of all. I just remember either a rabbit or a rat leading people out of the village with a flute. That's all I can tell you.
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#44. People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through.
R. Kelly
#45. I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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#46. You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is.
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#47. I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
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#48. When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.
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#49. When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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#50. I did 'Love Letter' and 'Write Me Back,' and those were fun albums for me to do because they took me back to music I love.
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#51. You save money so your kids can go to college - no matter what they are or who they are. They're your kids; you gotta support them.
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#52. When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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#53. No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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#55. Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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#56. Caelfel squared her shoulders. "I'm not afraid."
Geri turned away. "Good, because if you were, you are definitely in the wrong place.
Kelly R. Michaels
#57. I know my past is not what my future holds.
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#58. I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.
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#59. I have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me.
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#60. I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in my life, I was an ATM machine. But I'm used to that. You don't get used to it, but I'm used to the fact that people will do this, even your own family members, and I don't hate none of them.
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#61. I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time.
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#62. I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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#63. I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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#64. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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#65. I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.
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#66. You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.
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#67. Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.
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#68. I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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#69. I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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#70. I have always been infatuated with country music.
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#71. She's my comforter and friend, I tell you she's that peace within. She's the lover in my home, she's the strength when I'm not strong. Everyday my valentine, I'm so glad heave made her mine.
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#72. Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.
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#73. Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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#74. Ronald Isley is a musical genius.
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#75. 'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it.
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#76. Before I can finish one song, another is knocking on my door in my head.
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#77. Injustice anywhere is an injustice anywhere
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#78. You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do.
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#79. Take away the In God We Trust, tell me what the hell is wrong with us.
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#80. All of a sudden you're like the Bin Laden of America. Osama Bin Laden is the only one who knows what I'm going through.
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#81. I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
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#82. 'The Notebook' was beautiful, and I was crying because its hero and heroine had died together.
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#83. I just want to touch your soul, let me pour into you. Fill you with my joy, and make you feel brand new.
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#84. I had a cyst on my tonsils, and I couldn't sing. I had to have an operation.
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#85. An old adage warns: If you don't know your history, you will be forever condemned to repeat it. Likewise, if you don't know your science fiction, and heed its warnings, you could condemn the Earth to future catastrophe.
Kelly Steed
#86. I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.
R. Kelly
#87. I know that I'm not a criminal. People say that, but my music speaks for itself. And I believe in my music.
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#88. I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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#89. I belive I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky.
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#90. This album was designed to touch your soul.
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#91. You can't satisfy everybody. I will continue to do my job until I get fired, and the only people who can fire me are my fans.
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#92. I'm a '90s kid, so I went into the entire album process wanting to incorporate little touches of that sound from hip-hop and R&B. Just enough to where you hear it subtly and then go, 'This kind of reminds me of that time.'
Tori Kelly
#93. If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.
R. Kelly
#94. I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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#95. Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.
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#96. I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out.
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#97. I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.
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#98. My friend, there is no end when it comes to 'Trapped In The Closet.'
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#99. I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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#100. I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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