Latest John Legend Quotes from Interviews

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• Women are dealing with the same thing: they're dealing with expectations about how they're supposed to look and how they're supposed to interact with men. I think we're all trying to figure it all out, especially when we're teenagers, but I think the key is to listen and empathize with one another.

  John Legend

  Teenager, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• I would tell myself, "Love yourself and don't be afraid to take risks." I was often afraid to take risks, socially, because I was young and a little more shy and still figuring out who I wanted to be. Sometimes I look back and think, "I should have just been bolder and more confident."

  John Legend

  Love You, Thinking, Self Love

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• I think you're always policing yourself by trying to do what you think would be "cool" and accepted by other people, until you start to figure out who you really want to be. Growing up is an ongoing push-and-pull of you being yourself and you performing to what society expects you to be.

  John Legend

  Being Yourself, Growing Up, Thinking

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• Fear. People are afraid of talking about their fears and insecurities. They're afraid of expressing emotion beyond anger, dominance, or power, and they're afraid of getting in touch with their feminine side.

  John Legend

  People, Insecurity, Emotion

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• I've felt like my last name put pressure on me as an artist. If you're going to call yourself "Legend," you'd better make some good-ass music.

  John Legend

  Artist

  Source: www.elle.com

• I respect people who are willing to deal with everything that comes with being a politician, but I'm not willing to deal with half the country rooting for you to fail. I'm a singer; I deal with enough. But at least half the country's not trying to destroy me.

  John Legend

  Country, People, Trying

  Source: www.elle.com

• Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about two people from one writer's point of view.

  John Legend

  Views, Land, Two

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• If you want the film [La La Land ] to represent all things jazz, it does not. You'll be disappointed by that. But, if you just see it as one guy's point of view, one filmmaker's point of view, and one story among many stories that can be told about jazz, then it's not as much of an issue.

  John Legend

  Views, Land, Issues

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• I guess a lot of times pressure is put on something after it becomes big.

  John Legend

  Pressure, Bigs

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• Kind of the critical acclaim of this movie [La La Land] is that it's striking a chord with the public in a way that has been really beautiful and powerful.

  John Legend

  Beautiful, Powerful, Land

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• Sometimes success is just limited to festival circuit.

  John Legend

  Festivals, Sometimes, Circuits

  Source: www.popsugar.com

• It's not enough to say we need to love each other, you have to go behind that and say we need to change these policies, we need to fight, we need to protest, we need to agitate for change.

  John Legend

  Fighting, Needs, Enough

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• Mass incarceration is a policy that's kind of built up over the last four decades and it's destroyed families and communities, and something we need to change. And it's fallen disproportionally on black and brown communities, especially black communities, and it's kind of a manifestation of structural racism.

  John Legend

  Racism, Community, Black

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• It's important for us to fight for certain changes that need to happen. And one of those issues that I really care about is education. But also another one is incarceration.

  John Legend

  Fighting, Issues, Important

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• I think it's not enough for us to extend the hand of love. I think it's important that that goes both ways. It's important also that we look at policies we need to change as well.

  John Legend

  Thinking, Hands, Important

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• I want to make a better record than I made the last time. I want to grow. I want to discover new things about myself creatively.

  John Legend

  Records, Want, Lasts

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• You have to be careful when it comes to copyrights, whether just sounding like or feeling like something is enough to say you violated their copyrights because there's a lot of music out there, and there's a lot of things that feel like other things that are influenced by other things. And you don't want to get into that thing where all of us are suing each other all the time because this and that song feels like another song.

  John Legend

  Song, Feelings, Suing

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• I'm not going to run for office. I don't think that's the right move for me.

  John Legend

  Running, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

• You can't be a 25-year-old forever.

  John Legend

  Years, Forever

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

• We want to do things that are interesting, great storytelling, some of it is gonna be more fun and funny, some of it is more serious and talking about interesting issues that we think are provocative and interesting to us. Kind of on a more political level. But, you know, just things that we find interesting that we think stories that need to be told.

  John Legend

  Fun, Thinking, Talking

  "John Legend Has His Dad Jokes at the Ready". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. January 14, 2016.

• You believe in equality for women and men. And that means that, not only do you believe in it kind of in the abstract but you actively think people should seek it when it comes to the way you hire people, the way you compensate people, the way you treat women and men in professional settings and school, whatever the case, giving them equal opportunities without disadvantaging them because of their, for the fact that they're women. And to me that's what it means for me to be a feminist. I don't think it's that controversial.

  John Legend

  Believe, School, Mean

  "John Legend Has His Dad Jokes at the Ready". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. January 14, 2016.

• Some of them [family names] have sentimental value for some reason or another, some of them just sound beautiful. Some of them are because of people that are meaningful to us in our lives. So it's hard to say which one we'll pick. Sometimes they say you have to see the child before you decide. So maybe when we see her we'll make a last-second decision.

  John Legend

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Children

  "John Legend Has His Dad Jokes at the Ready". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. January 14, 2016.

• I just want my music to measure up to. Part of it's just thinking about my place in history and how this music is going to be perceived, if it's listened to 30, 40 years from now.

  John Legend

  Thinking, Years, Want

  Source: www.npr.org

• My mother, I want her to like my music, but she's not exactly my target audience. So I care more about the fans in general, just making sure they enjoy what I do.

  John Legend

  Mother, Target Audience, Care

  Source: www.npr.org

• Music business is not for everyone. But if you have it in you, you have that passion, if you have that energy in you that you really want to make something creative and make something that's going to impact the world, then go for it, do it and don't let anybody tell you no.

  John Legend

  Passion, Impact, Creative

  Source: www.npr.org