John Legend Quotes

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John Legend

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 28, 1978

I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

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We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.

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I don't actually go to a lot of games because I think football on TV is better. Even though I'm pretty busy, I watch 90 percent of Ohio State's games.

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In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.

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In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.

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I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop.

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The most I ever spent on technology is building a studio - I built one at home in Los Angeles. I can't tell you how much exactly, but the whole process is very expensive.

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John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.

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At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.

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With Tinder and all these other things, there's always this kind of illusion with infinite choices. There's something very cool about saying, 'Oh, I actually really care about this person, and I want to commit to loving this person and being loyal to this person.' You can't get that from the kind of infinite multiple choices that are out there.

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For me as a songwriter, I love when other people cover my songs.

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I know how it feels to be a singer who wants to get discovered.

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I love to make fried chicken.

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Being married is not the same as having a kid because being married to another adult who can take care of themselves to a degree is different than having a kid that is completely dependent on you.

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I studied African American studies, and I read these slave narratives and the escape narratives of people that were able to escape slavery and always found those stories intriguing and powerful and inspiring.

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If you look at what happened with Underground Railroad, there is so much action. There is so much intrigue; there is so much of historical importance.

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I was a huge 'Breaking Bad' fan. I just loved the whole thing. Always interesting, always urgent. The stakes were always high.

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The Obamas have been a great example for the country, and I think people are getting a bit nostalgic for that now when they see what some of the alternatives might be.

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Trump's been a public personality forever, and that's fine if you want him to be a reality-TV host, but if you want him to be president, there's a different standard.

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Music is so crucial to every film, I think.

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