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" Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music. "
R. Kelly
Just
Working
Sweet
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" My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history. "
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" 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. "
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" Ronald Isley is a musical genius. "
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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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" 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 want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see. "
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" I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do. "
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" 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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" 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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Mom
" I believe the people that buy my music believes in me. "
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" When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind. "
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" My greatest competition is, well, me. "
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" I love blues. My grandfather did blues. "
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" '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. "
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Man
" My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it. "
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Beautiful
Hands
Disease
" I like to give people more than their money's worth. "
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Worth
Like
People
" 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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Say
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" 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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Like
Love
" When I get into the studio, I write from my heart. "
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Heart
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" As a businessman, I saw club tracks as a new franchise that could be profitable for years to come. It was like being in McDonald's and realizing that even though cheeseburgers and fries sold big, you could also make money serving up McRibs, which are always available for a limited time only. "
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New
You
Time
" 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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Live Life
Life
People
" I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music. "
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" I had a cyst on my tonsils, and I couldn't sing. I had to have an operation. "
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" With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything. "
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" 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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" Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up. "
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" No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer. "
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" I have to say, it was fun doing this 'Love Letter' album because, hey, man, love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forevermore, it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person. "
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" 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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" 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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