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John Legend Quotes

There's a certain confidence that comes with being sure about the way the world works.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 28, 1978

Topics

Confidence World Way Being Sure

I've always kept a journal and brought storytelling into my teaching.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

Journal Storytelling Always Teaching

Well, I think the first piece of music I ever heard that I really loved was 'Salome's Dances' by Richard Strauss. I played that 12-inch, 78 record, and I stood up on an ottoman to play it on a big Victrola and I'd just keep playing it and playing it.

Music Think Loved Play First Big

I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.

Great Sun Studying Read Did Times

Once you've been somebody, really, you have a career and you're a nobody anymore, and you're getting older, you're living what's called a state of shame.

Getting Older You Career Living Been

I listen more to music when I'm on my computer. I'm into the latest YouTube thing. I'm a nanosecond kind of listener, but if I'm driving I would be listening to a Merle Haggard box set. It's a weird experience listening to 'Working Man Blues' by Merle Haggard and cruising around in a Porsche.

Music Experience Man Listening Weird

You can't manufacture the feeling of being in a small crowd and connecting on every single level to the very last person in the very last row in the back. I think when you evolve into a headlining act and things get bigger, the intimacy and some of that energy gets lost a little bit.

Small Energy Think You Back Person

We need open, competitive, market economies... but at the same time with effective regulation and supervision.

Jose Manuel Barroso

Time Need Same Open Competitive

I try to get massages on Saturday. That's my only day off.

Day Saturday Try Get Off Only

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Religion Belief Rather Equation

I'm totally an anxious mess all the time. There's a constant dialogue going on in my brain, and it's just reminding me of all the failures that I have had, and all of the things I need to do, and all of the things I'm not doing good enough.

Good Time Me Brain Doing Enough

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

Ego You Lose Way Up Own

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

God Help Whatever Bring Something

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