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" Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me. "
R. Kelly
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" I believe the people that buy my music believes in me. "
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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 feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child. "
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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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" Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around. "
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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 look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen. "
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" With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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Love
People
Me
" 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. "
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Me
Myself
Compliment
" 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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Darkness
Face
" Ronald Isley is a musical genius. "
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Musical
Genius
" Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers. "
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Museum
Childhood
Clothes
" 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'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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Me
Long
Good
" 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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Tell
Mom
" I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse. "
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Know
Book
Me
" I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press. "
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Doing
Career
Press
" 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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" '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. "
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" I did 'Love Letter' and 'Write Me Back,' and those were fun albums for me to do because they took me back to music I love. "
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" When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up. "
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" To make an album like 'Love Letter,' everything's got to be about love. Everything has to have a great feeling when you listen to it. "
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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. "
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People
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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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Expect
Fans
" 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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