- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Born Quotes
Where you start shapes who you become.
This page gathers quotes about origins in the literal sense — being born into music, born in a specific state or country — alongside a more analytical note on how each generation's tastes differ from the one before it. For more on personal identity, see our Identity quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn't end up in her position.
- Talent
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you're artistic in any way, you're probably born with it. I guess it's a talent that can be learned here and there, but I think the instinct to tell a story or to create something happens maybe in the womb.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing. It would never happen in Germany or Japan.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it because I was born to do this. I was given this gift, and I'm making the most of my opportunity.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my songs are based on personal experience, and 'Lost Without You' came out fully born.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Morocco and lived there until I was 13; I'm really proud of my heritage.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Battle Creek, Michigan, about 20 miles from Kalamazoo. I lived around there for about seven years. That community is one that I really care about.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up.
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- Nov 07, 2020