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" 'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically. "

R. Kelly

Doing

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Love

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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. "

" There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. 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!' "

" I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of singing. "

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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 started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music. "

" I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it. "

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" All the sounds on 'Trapped in the Closet' - the knockin' on the door, when I grab the keys, when I walk down the stairs, the car horns - we sampled all of those things around my house. "

" I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen. "

" My friend, there is no end when it comes to 'Trapped In The Closet.' "

" When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join. "

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" Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music. "

" 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. "

" My fans have always loved my metaphors. "

" I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much. "

" 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. "

" 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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" You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy. "

" I know that I'm not a criminal. People say that, but my music speaks for itself. And I believe in my music. "

" When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind. "

" Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap. "

" There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain. "

R. Kelly

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer. "

" I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift. "