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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. "
R. Kelly
People
You
Fans
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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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" I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" You save money so your kids can go to college - no matter what they are or who they are. They're your kids; you gotta support them. "
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" In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels. "
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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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" 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'm no angel, but I'm no monster, either. "
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Either
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" To hear the appreciation, the screams - that's what any of us need. We're at our best when we're wanted. "
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Us
Appreciation
" I don't want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want. "
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Mad
Expect
Fans
" I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd. "
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You
" I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me. "
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Always
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Perfect
" Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship. "
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" 'The Notebook' was beautiful, and I was crying because its hero and heroine had died together. "
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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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Fun
" I've done a lot of things that I regret. "
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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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" 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 know that I'm not a criminal. People say that, but my music speaks for itself. And I believe in my music. "
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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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" 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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" I have always been infatuated with country music. "
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" I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon. "
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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 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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Think
Sit
" 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'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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Money
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