John Legend Quotes

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.

We all must follow a different path to let our light shine, and that's what makes us so unpredictable and unique.

The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.

When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.

Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections

The future started yesterday, and we're already late.

We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go.

My head’s under water but I’m breathing fine

The biggest weapon is to stay peaceful

If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

Experience is a great teacher.

I just want it to be timeless and timely at the same time.

We should care about what is going on in the world.

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.

Musicians are in-season all the time.

The struggle for freedom and justice is now.

​W​e're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's ​difficult ​for people to persist through that.

John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.

There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.

I feel like my job is to make impact, spread love, tell great stories, inspire people, that's what I am going to do.

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

I played classical as a kid.

As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.

I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.

I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6.

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

As a nation - and as a world - we need more truth.

London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.

You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot of money on our part to make a change in people's lives.

To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.

Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways.

I only want to be associated with music that is high quality. That's my main criteria.

I'm craving more soul, I'm craving more truth, I'm craving more socially - just people that are aware of what's going on in the world.

I like cool jackets - a nice fall or winter coat. You can get a lot of use out of it, and you'll wear it frequently, so it can really set the tone of your uniform for the season.

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

All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place

Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.

I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.

There's a lot of hurry up and wait. But it gives you time to write a song.

I'm pretty adventurous with food, so I'm not afraid to try anything.

I thought it would be funny to take a photo in the White House bathroom, I take pictures everywhere I go, but I don't think I can top that one.

If a few people decide not to buy my album it's really not going to change my life that much.

Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.

The fun part about collaborating is that you naturally just bounce off each other's energy and learn off each other.

My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.