John Legend Quotes

It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.

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

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

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

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

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

Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections

I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.

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

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

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

The biggest weapon is to stay peaceful

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

Musicians are in-season all the time.

It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.

Music, to me, if it's good, it's good. That's all that matters.

I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

Sometimes I start just on the piano with a melody or musical idea that kind of leads me to certain lyrics.

I do believe that part of us ending racism is us seeing each other's humanity and learning to love each other, even if we look different or worship differently or live differently.

Artists in general never stay in the same place, we keep growing. It's still you, you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.

I believed in myself and I am a firm believer you have to think the things you want and visualize.

Sometimes there's that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come together in a way that brings me to tears.

I feel like spirituality definitely comes through in my music, but I don't make any specific efforts to make it that way.

​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.

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.

You can always find a stray negative comment on the Internet. It's like everybody loves to put negative comments on the Internet under the cloak of anonymity.

Critics like to describe and categorize things, and categories often have a way of limiting people.

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.

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

The struggle for freedom and justice is now.

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

Experience is a great teacher.