John Legend
John Legend
John Legend, is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He has won ten Grammy Awards, one Golden Globe, and one Academy Award. In 2007, Legend received the Hal David Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth28 December 1978
CountryUnited States of America
helping-others empathy morality
Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?
teacher reality experience
Experience is a great teacher.
musician seasons
Musicians are in-season all the time.
wise inspire musician
To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.
song writing thinking
I think it's hard to really write a song that will educate someone because songs are meant to be ... you don't want to be too didactic in a song because it doesn't make for good music. And I think the role of songs can be to inspire people but there needs to education and prose to back that up.
family-love different looks
A just society is not one built on fear or repression or vengeance or exclusion, but one built on love. Love for our families. Love for our neighbors. Love for the least among us. Love for those who look different or worship differently. Love for those we don't even know.
men black today
There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.
sadness people realizing
You see all these things that make you feel desperate or sad, but you realize changes can be made, and it doesn't take a lot of money on our part to make a change in people's lives.
reality play fire
The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.
love-you curves perfect
Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections
song writing rapper
When I write, I don't really focus on duets or anything like that, or whether I'm going to feature this or that rapper. I just focus on just making a great song and figure out the rest later.
fighting people empowering
The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education
fun thinking talking
We want to do things that are interesting, great storytelling, some of it is gonna be more fun and funny, some of it is more serious and talking about interesting issues that we think are provocative and interesting to us. Kind of on a more political level. But, you know, just things that we find interesting that we think stories that need to be told.
musician feels
I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.