#myself

People are always coming up to me, thinking I've got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself. ↗

— Dr. Dre

#coming #easy #got #hit #hit records

Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#eminem #get #having #i #lose

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'. ↗

— Carla Bley

#art #band #better #blues #could

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#breakthrough #came #city #else #every

I do consider myself part of black history. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#black history #consider #history #i #i do

I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#bad #care #does #else #even

Yonkers made me strong and made me believe in myself, because so many people would doubt you and not believe. There are people that would believe in you, but the environment was so harsh, nobody wanted you to get out, you know? ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#believe #doubt #environment #get #harsh

For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#first time #i #life #my life #myself

I don't listen to people's opinions. I have people around me who I can trust, but most of all I listen to myself. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#i #i can #listen #me #most

I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great. ↗

— Mary J. Blige

#absolute #absolutely #already #anything #each