American - Musician | June 20, 1949 -
Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.
Lionel Richie
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I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.
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Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.
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Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.
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Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.
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The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.'
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All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.
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I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.
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I think the whole world is dying to hear someone say, 'I love you.' I think that if I can leave the legacy of love and passion in the world, then I think I've done my job in a world that's getting colder and colder by the day.
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My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.
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So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.
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People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.
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