Ne-Yo Quotes

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Ne-Yo

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 18, 1982

I would've given my right arm to do something on the 'Ray' film, the movie about Ray Charles.

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I like to learn through doing. Let me make a mistake, and then critique me on what I did so that I learn that way.

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I'm not a natural. I had to teach myself - or be taught - everything I do. I just spent hours and hours in the mirror mimicking Michael Jackson.

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Sammy was the only one that looked like me, so I naturally gravitated to him. Sammy made it cool to be black at a time when, let's just say it, it wasn't very cool to be black. His name was on the front of the building in lights, and he had to go in the back. But you never saw him sweat.

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I think people are getting into these 'Empire' songs because of the emotional investment they have in the characters. You kind of feel like you know the songs already because you just watched them play out in front of you with these characters.

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I've spoken before on how the art of storytelling has been lost a bit. I definitely feel 'Empire' is helping to reprogram us back to that place where we pay attention and invest emotionally in the records and the artists.

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I'm trying to bring something new to the Tin Man. He may be the one without the heart, but he's the most heartfelt guy there. It's a more manly heartfelt, a 'don't feel sorry for me' - type of heartfelt. I don't want to say tougher, because that just sounds stupid. But the Tin Man is a man's man.

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Me and Drake gonna be neighbors if Donald Trump becomes president.

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Me being an artist working with dancers and seeing how hard they work, they are the first to show up and the last to leave. They work just as hard, if not harder, than me - and they never get credit for it.

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You know what? At this point in my career, at this point in my life... I'm 34 years old; I don't have time to be hiding.

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Of course, there are some things you keep personal and private because you're a human being. But on the other side of it, I ain't got time to be hiding nothing and all that. It is what it is.

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We are in a good place. Her name is Crystal Renay. She has much promise. Yes, much promise. Quality.

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I'm never going to complain about doing my job. I love what I do!

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I am blessed to be doing what I do. So if I have to be at a photo shoot, do an interview, or make a TV appearance, I am not going to sit around whining and complaining about how I don't want to get up early or I don't feel like talking.

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A lot of times, when artists are rushing to put out projects, it's on some financial tip because they want to make money. But for me, I'm not in any rush.

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I want to connect with my fans the way Mary J. Blige's fans connect with her.

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There's no recreating what Michael Jackson and Diana Ross did in 'The Wiz'. We're trying to figure out who these characters are in 2015. How would these times change their motives, change the things they would say and do?

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I recall my mum tried to teach me how to fry chicken once, and I almost burned down half the kitchen... I don't think I have the patience for cooking.

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I'm the type of guy to put the water on the stove and then walk away and 10 seconds later be like, 'Come on, boil'!

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I've been a huge Adele fan since I heard her album '19.'

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