Ginuwine Quotes

• I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.

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  Artist, Thinking, Legacy

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• Someone has to really like you to go out there and physically get your CD. Shout out to everybody who actually paid for the CD. A lot of people don't realize that's how we live, that's our job. When we people take music from us, that's just like taking food off of our table and it's not cool. It's a lot of blood, sweat and tears that goes into the music and those lyrics. To have people just go and steal it, it doesn't feel well.

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  Jobs, Sweat, Blood

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• I think you have a lot of examples on TV of what not to do, you don't have a lot of examples of what to do.

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  Thinking, Example, Tvs

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• I just do as many songs as I can and then I put it together when I get sort of in the middle, maybe 30 songs, that's when I start really thinking about the name of the cd and what direction all the songs are going, that kind of stuff. But I don't ever want to corner myself, I just want to be able to express whatever I can express in songs and just pick after that.

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  Song, Thinking, Cds

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• I'm the kind of cat that can finish three songs in a day. Two or three songs in a day. If my voice is up to it and I feel up to it, I can finish two or three songs in a day.

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  Song, Cat, Two

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• I want a woman that wants me to take care of myself because truly, that tells a lot about you. And if you don't take care of yourself how can you take care of a woman? How can you take care of kids?

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  Kids, Care, Want

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• Once your motivation is killed, it's kind of hard to revive it and bring it back to life.

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  Motivation, Kind, Revive

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• When you are starting out you're inspired by so many different things, you just want to be the best, man...and you're just so ambitious; your drive is just at a million!

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  Men, Ambitious, Different

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• You have to do all you can as a parent to stop your kid from doing all the craziness that's going on in the world. And although I still have music that's saying one thing, I still let them know what it is, and I'm not doing anything in my music that I wouldn't tell my kids about.

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  Kids, Parent, World

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• Is there any more Room for me in those Jeans...

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  Jeans, Rooms

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• Sometimes I listen to the radio and I can't believe some of the stuff that I'm hearing that everyone is loving. So it's a task that we've got to conquer and we have to make sure that we pass the test.

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  Believe, Tasks, Radio

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• My drive is still cool, it's not like how when I first began. I don't think anyone's drive is the same.

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  Thinking, Firsts, Stills

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• To get nominated, and a lot of people get nominated and say they're glad to be nominated but I wanna win! I want to win!

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  Winning, People, Want

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• You always measure success by what you did last. It's hard to measure that because it's something that just comes. If someone can just make a hit, they would do it everyday. But you can't make a hit that you know is a hit every day.

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  Everyday, Lasts, Measure Of Success

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• If you're talking triple threat of a writer, singer and actress, that would probably be Beyoncé. If Aaliyah were still here, she and Beyoncé would be neck and neck.

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  Talking, Would Be, Singers

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• When you have kids and you're married...you know, life takes its toll on you after a while, and then you're just not as creative, you're not as motivated... And it takes a special person when it's time to dig down and do a record, to really go in there and pour out whatever it is you got in you to put on a record, and that's what we did.

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  Kids, Creative, Special

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• I always loved music and I always loved to perform, and that's my favorite part, to perform; my favorite part is not the studio, I can't stand the studio.

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  My Favorite, Studios, I Can

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• I think certain people may make it to sexual; and then others will offset that with the depth of R & B and all of its substance it has to have, in order to be called R & B or, known for an looked at to be called R & B and I kind of straddle the fence on that one because in my earlier years I was the 'Nasty Man,'.

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  Men, Thinking, Order

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• I got to keep moving, I've got to keep living and I've got to keep working.

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  Moving, Keep Moving

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• By the grace of God alone, I was able to still focus, when it was time for me to do my job, and I think I've done it pretty good, and I know I can buckle down even more.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Focus

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• One reason is because I was not being recognized the way I thought I should be recognized, so I stopped putting so much into what I was doing 'cause I was like 'Oh they don't care about it anyway...'

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  Care, Way, Causes

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• I think doing shows with other R&B artists like myself brings the attention to the crowd. You can't just do those one artist shows anymore. I don't like just me being on the show.

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  Artist, Thinking, Attention

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• I'm not going to listen to the hottest Hip Hop station in my city because that's not where I'm at right now. I'm going to listen to the smooth jams of the 90's and early 2000's. That's where I am and that's where my audience is.

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  Cities, Hip Hop, Jam

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• I believe artists are too focused on the younger crowd. Why would you want to focus on them? Let them do what they do. You continue to do what you do.

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  Believe, Artist, Focus

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• I never claimed to be the best singer, I never claimed to be the best dancer, but I do claim to be the person that can put them together best.

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  Dancer, Together, Singers

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