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" I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music. "
R. Kelly
Music
People
Good
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" 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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" I've done a lot of things that I regret. "
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" There's a time and place for everything. 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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" 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. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes. "
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Myself
" 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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" My friend, there is no end when it comes to 'Trapped In The Closet.' "
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" I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway. "
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Mind
People
" I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much. "
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" 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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People
Know
" I love that I can play around with all types of music. "
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I Can
I Love
" 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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You
Run
Matter
" 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. "
R. Kelly
Student
Say
Reading
" 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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You
Find
Give
" 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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" 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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Hate
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" Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love. "
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Get
Been
" Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit. "
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Nobody
Human
" 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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You
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" I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day. "
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" Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day. "
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" I really don't chase songs. I get in the studio, I know what I gotta do; I'm pretty much programmed to do it. "
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" I don't want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want. "
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" Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood. "
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" My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that. "
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