Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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
Singing
Drink
Honey
Related Quotes:
" 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
Own
Children
Time
" 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
People
You
Treat
" I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people. "
Mary J. Blige
Will
People
Time
" Growing up, I was the preferred hairstylist for all of my friends. "
Mary J. Blige
Growing Up
Up
Growing
" I can go out raw with nothing, and my fans would still be happy, but I feel that I owe it to them to give them almost like a Broadway musical at this point in my life. I have to give them something more, so I do have to think of different ways to do it. "
Mary J. Blige
Life
Be Happy
Happy
" I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.' "
Mary J. Blige
Bad Days
I Can
Bad
" I listen to gospel music. "
Mary J. Blige
Listen
Music
Gospel
" 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
Say
Door
Know
" 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
Feel
Give
Free
" It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract. "
Mary J. Blige
Saying
You
Meeting
" I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up. "
Mary J. Blige
See
Up
Colors
" As long as I live, I know I'll have feelings. And that's what I'm passionate about. "
Mary J. Blige
Feelings
Know
Live
" 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
Pain
Great
Looking
" 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
Music
People
Live
" I don't have any health problems, but to keep your health improves your quality of life. "
Mary J. Blige
Quality
Health
Keep
" I had to learn how to trust my gut. Trust what I know to be right... not right, but not waver on who I am. Know who I am, know what I want, and know it. Not waver on it and be secure in that. And I still struggle with it. But I really... I can't be moved. You can't move me, and that all comes with loving myself, and I'm like my best buddy. "
Mary J. Blige
Myself
Best
I Am
" 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
Me
You
Truth
" 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
Know
Women
Together
" It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life. "
Mary J. Blige
Life
Blood
Broken
" 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
Believe
God
Me
" I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children. "
Mary J. Blige
Children
Mom
Husband
" I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes. "
Mary J. Blige
Love
Like
Potatoes
" Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it. "
Mary J. Blige
You
Climb
Level
" I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection. "
Mary J. Blige
Perfection
Never
Where
" I've done well, I've been disappointed, and I think it all goes back to you. Of course the labels are going to be the labels. It's the music business. You are a business. That's what they do. So you've got to protect yourself. "
Mary J. Blige
Think
You
Yourself
" I'm a child of God. God is my mommy, my daddy. That's the only thing that'll keep my head up. If I don't remember who I am in him, I'm done. "
Mary J. Blige
God
Remember
I Am
" 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
Long
Happy
Life
" As a kid, I was in love with Michael Jackson, and I just knew I was going to marry him someday. "
Mary J. Blige
Marry
Love
Going
" 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
Person
Mess
Why
" 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
People
Who
Trust