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" R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through. "
R. Kelly
Knows
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" Always believe what you see - with your own eyes, that is. Always believe what you see. That's the best way to go about this business. I've heard a lot of things about a lot of people, and it was never true. "
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" I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes. "
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" 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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" 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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" When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty. "
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" I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music. "
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Myself
" 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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" I believe the people that buy my music believes in me. "
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Believe
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" Other kids could read, other kids could write, other kids could spell, they could do math. I felt like an alien. I felt like an outcast. I felt like, 'What is going to happen to me?' "
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Spell
Like
Happen
" 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. "
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" I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love. "
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Love
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" 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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Go
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" 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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Long
Good
" If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face. "
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Go
Darkness
Face
" 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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You
" People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through. "
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" 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. "
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Life
Genius
Story
" You don't see me in the club. And the reason is because I would rather be in the studio mixing these musical potions. Now sometimes they blow up in my face, and there's a lot of smoke. But that's who I am. Music is what I do. "
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Face
" 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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Find
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" I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken. "
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" 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. "
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Student
Say
Reading
" Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music. "
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Just
Working
Sweet
" When I get into the studio, I write from my heart. "
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Get
Heart
I Write
" I like to give people more than their money's worth. "
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Like
People
" Before I can finish one song, another is knocking on my door in my head. "
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Finish
Song
Head
" I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway. "
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Know
Always
" When you hear romantic music, it makes you want to take your girl out to dinner or buy her something or take her out in the moonlight or take her on a walk. "
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Girl
You
Music
" 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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" 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!' "
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" You can't satisfy everybody. I will continue to do my job until I get fired, and the only people who can fire me are my fans. "
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