John Legend Want Quotations

If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.

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

I never went through a period where I didn't want to play music. I've always loved it and it's always been a huge part of my life.

I want to move people.

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

Music was my life...It was everything to me, even though I was in school majoring in English. I was still very focused on music and always finding ways to perform, so that was what set me up to want to become a recording artist.

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.

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

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.