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- Nov 07, 2020
R Kelly Quotes
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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the Ali of today. I'm the Marvin Gaye of today. I'm the Bob Marley of today. I'm the Martin Luther King, or all the other greats that have come before us. And a lot of people are starting to realise that now.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
My greatest competition is, well, me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want people to notice my writing abilities are real and that I'm not just stuck in one situation.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I love plays. I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I believe that the depth of your struggle can determine the height of your success. I was inspired to come out of everything I've been through and end up in a place where I never thought that I would be.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
My fans have always loved my metaphors.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
- Haters
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories. I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in my life, I was an ATM machine. But I'm used to that. You don't get used to it, but I'm used to the fact that people will do this, even your own family members, and I don't hate none of them.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020