“When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gay...” — R. Kelly Quote

When I think of musical geniuses, I think of Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson and Prince. That's who comes to mind.

I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out.

My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known around the world, and I've touched a lot of people with my music. That's one of the great testimonies that's gonna go down in history.

I will always do R. Kelly - I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.

I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.

Great music was written by the great geniuses, and you want to do it justice.

There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck.

Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.

There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.

I think Kurosawa was one of the first storytelling geniuses who began to change the narrative structure of films.