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" I played classical as a kid. "
John Legend
Classical
Played
Kid
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" I've fundraised for Hillary, and I'll be voting for her. I don't think we should be electing Donald Trump as president, and I'm supportive of Hillary's campaign. "
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" 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
Positive
Music
Me
" Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist. "
John Legend
Artist
Look
Icon
" I've always had an interest in story-telling and history and just film and art in general, but particularly when it comes to storytelling, I think the reason why we became involved in film is because we wanted to get some great stories out there. "
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Great
Art
Storytelling
" I don't have a real recipe with measurements for my chicken stew. I just kind of make it up as I go. I made it for the first time one Christmas when I came home from college. It's guaranteed to cure a cold. "
John Legend
Chicken
Time
Home
" I was an English major in college who concentrated in African-American literature and culture. So I read quite a few slave narratives and stories of escape, and I grew up in Ohio, which was a common stop on the Underground Railroad. "
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Up
College
Stop
" We should care about what is going on in the world. "
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Going
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" I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6. "
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Always
Front
Man
" I think the thing about love is that even though the things around us change, we as human beings, a lot of the ways we interact, and the ways we love each other is timeless. It requires trust, honesty, commitment, romance, and physical chemistry. "
John Legend
Change
Honesty
Love
" Some artists I know, they would rather not see the audience or envision them. But for me, I'd rather see them. I feel like part of the reason I perform is to feel that connection. It's the reason I love it so much. "
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See
Me
Love
" For me as a songwriter, I love when other people cover my songs. "
John Legend
Other
Songs
Me
" Sometimes there's that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come together in a way that brings me to tears. "
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Tears
Moment
Music
" John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name. "
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Me
Stage
Name
" The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire. "
John Legend
Ear
Best
Trial
" When you're releasing an album, you never know how it's going to go. You never know how a critic is going to receive it or how much it's going to sell. "
John Legend
Critic
Never
Know
" In New York especially, I always want to wear a nice overcoat to get through the winter: you can wear them so many times, and they make every outfit better. "
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Winter
New York
New
" Musicians are in-season all the time. "
John Legend
Musicians
Time
" 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
Go
Football
Busy
" There's nothing that can shock me anymore, but at this point, Trump's made it very clear how his temperament is, how his personality is, what his level of intellectual depth is when it comes to policy, and he's made it abundantly clear that he's utterly unqualified to be president - no matter what your political views are. "
John Legend
Political
Intellectual
Me
" My style is pretty clean, classic, and elegant, with some elements to make it a little funkier. If you see me on a normal day, I'm usually in a T-shirt and jeans, maybe with some cool sneakers, but I'm pretty basic. "
John Legend
Day
Cool
You
" 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. "
John Legend
Fall
Uniform
Cool
" I feel like fashion is making steps toward diversity, but I think they could do more. "
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Diversity
More
Think
" I studied African American studies, and I read these slave narratives and the escape narratives of people that were able to escape slavery and always found those stories intriguing and powerful and inspiring. "
John Legend
American
People
Slavery
" At work, you want to stand out but not in extra-funky ways. At the core, it's about dressing for girls - who are most of my fans - and you want to dress up for them. You just want to feel like you're on top of your game. "
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Work
Game
Feel
" Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist. "
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See
People
My Own
" 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
Busy
High School
Me
" Well, what's interesting, I try not to think about the radio when I'm writing a song. I want people to love the song, and that means it might not be exactly thinking about the radio, but it's thinking about your audience and saying, 'I want people to like this song after it's done.' "
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Writing
Thinking
Think
" 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. "
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People
Ideas
Start
" If you look at what happened with Underground Railroad, there is so much action. There is so much intrigue; there is so much of historical importance. "
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Historical
You
Action
" I'm craving more soul, I'm craving more truth, I'm craving more socially - just people that are aware of what's going on in the world. "
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People
Soul
Truth