Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6. "
John Legend
Always
Front
Man
Related Quotes:
" Being married is not the same as having a kid because being married to another adult who can take care of themselves to a degree is different than having a kid that is completely dependent on you. "
John Legend
Care
Take Care
Different
" 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. "
John Legend
Donald Trump
Should
Her
" I know how it feels to be a singer who wants to get discovered. "
John Legend
Know
Get
Wants
" Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist. "
John Legend
Artist
Look
Icon
" Shoes are important, of course. I love my Lanvin sneakers - they go with a lot of things. And then I think a nice bag is great, so you carry your computer or whatever else in style. I've been carrying a Tom Ford backpack lately. "
John Legend
Nice
Love
Shoes
" 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.' "
John Legend
Writing
Thinking
Think
" I remember when I first came out as an artist, back in 2004 or 2005, the record label used to take me to all the radio stations and just have me sit in, like, their lunchroom or their conference room, and play for the whole staff. Just to introduce them to me so they would play my records. "
John Legend
Radio
Play
Back
" I was around a lot of gospel as a kid. "
John Legend
Gospel
Kid
Lot
" 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
" In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle. "
John Legend
Rest
Business
Technology
" London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting. "
John Legend
Good
Always
City
" I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet. "
John Legend
Hearing
Work
Music
" I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me. "
John Legend
Myself
Me
Always
" Hip hop has the urgency and rebelliousness that early rock n' roll and punk had: a level of rule-breaking and flirtation with danger. It allows you to break the rules. "
John Legend
Urgency
Rules
Rock
" As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change. "
John Legend
Black
World
Proud
" I want to move people. "
John Legend
Move
Want
People
" I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion. "
John Legend
Business
Work
Management
" As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it. "
John Legend
Think
Respect
People
" 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. "
John Legend
Up
College
Stop
" I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences. "
John Legend
Up
Music
More
" 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
" You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons. "
John Legend
You
Piano
Mother
" I signed with Kanye back in 2003, and at that time, 'The College Dropout' hadn't even come out, so he was still relatively unknown compared to where he is now. He wasn't a household name; people were still calling him 'Kane.' "
John Legend
College
Name
Back
" I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other. "
John Legend
Many
Like
Feel
" 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
" 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
" In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete. "
John Legend
Athlete
Early
Football
" There's a certain confidence that comes with being sure about the way the world works. "
John Legend
Way
Sure
Confidence
" In America we have big issues with education - in impoverished communities especially. I work with Teach For All, and so we're encouraging more people to get into teaching. "
John Legend
Teach
People
America
" I like things that feel like they're timeless and really well made and tailored... things that make me feel confident when I leave the house. "
John Legend
House
Confident
Like