That's the evergreen nature of a great song. They can be resurrected. They can be covered. They can find new relevance due to changing circumstances in history. John Legend More Quotes by John Legend More Quotes From John Legend I respect people who are willing to deal with everything that comes with being a politician, but I'm not willing to deal with half the country rooting for you to fail. I'm a singer; I deal with enough. But at least half the country's not trying to destroy me. John Legend trying country people You have to be careful when it comes to copyrights, whether just sounding like or feeling like something is enough to say you violated their copyrights because there's a lot of music out there, and there's a lot of things that feel like other things that are influenced by other things. And you don't want to get into that thing where all of us are suing each other all the time because this and that song feels like another song. John Legend suing feelings song 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. John Legend fun talking thinking I'm not going to run for office. I don't think that's the right move for me. John Legend running moving thinking I guess a lot of times pressure is put on something after it becomes big. John Legend bigs pressure You believe in equality for women and men. And that means that, not only do you believe in it kind of in the abstract but you actively think people should seek it when it comes to the way you hire people, the way you compensate people, the way you treat women and men in professional settings and school, whatever the case, giving them equal opportunities without disadvantaging them because of their, for the fact that they're women. And to me that's what it means for me to be a feminist. I don't think it's that controversial. John Legend mean believe school Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about two people from one writer's point of view. John Legend land views two I just want my music to measure up to. Part of it's just thinking about my place in history and how this music is going to be perceived, if it's listened to 30, 40 years from now. John Legend want years thinking But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z. John Legend keys artist people For me I'm actually doing what I normally do when I do my solo thing and the other thing is actually more new to me. John Legend solo I feel like spirituality definitely comes through in my music, but I don't make any specific efforts to make it that way. John Legend spirituality effort way I have a great band, with very talented players, and we give everything we have every night. John Legend player giving night I hear melodies and hooks all day. I've always been that way, since I was a kid. John Legend hook kids way I was in an a cappella group in school, so it particularly helped me keep my piano chops up. John Legend piano groups school I've felt like my last name put pressure on me as an artist. If you're going to call yourself "Legend," you'd better make some good-ass music. John Legend artist I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups. John Legend choir groups men I only want to be associated with music that is high quality. That's my main criteria. John Legend criteria quality want Some of them [family names] have sentimental value for some reason or another, some of them just sound beautiful. Some of them are because of people that are meaningful to us in our lives. So it's hard to say which one we'll pick. Sometimes they say you have to see the child before you decide. So maybe when we see her we'll make a last-second decision. John Legend beautiful meaningful children You can't be a 25-year-old forever. John Legend forever years For me, no matter how much money you want to make off of singing, no matter what kind of fame you want to make, achieve, the most important thing to me is making music that you're proud of, making music that comes from you, comes from an authentic place in you. John Legend singing important want
