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Ne-Yo, born Shaffer Lamont Ne Yo, Jr., is an American singer-songwriter and music producer. Born on October 18, 1982, he is renowned for his unique musical style and talented songwriting. Ne-Yo has achieved significant success in the music industry, winning multiple Grammy Awards.

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“My style is mainly about comfort. It has to be comfortable, it has to lay right on me, know what I mean?”

Knows Mean Style Comfort Comfortable Lays

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“I have my diehard R&B fans on one side of the spectrum and my diehard pop and dance fans on the other side of the spectrum.”

Sides Fans Pops Spectrum Diehard

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“Prince is the ultimate performer. Prince is that dude that's going to get on stage by himself, if he need to, but hold you in the palm of his hand. Like, you can't take your eyes off the man when he's on stage, and he could just be sitting there playing his guitar.”

Ifs Men Needs Hands Eye Stage He Man Like You Sitting Ultimate Guitar Performers Palms

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“I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.”

Feels Percent Originals Inspired Original Thought

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“I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.”

World Artist Half Pride Type Pops

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“Michael Jackson will live forever through the thing that he put all of his life energy into: his music. I will do my part to keep the melody alive, to keep the energy forever changing form, but never ever dying!! Long live Michael Jackson.”

Long Form Energy Forever Alive Dying Melody Live Forever

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“An idea that will translate really well musically should work visually. I try to write music that you can feel if you were to close your eyes you can see what I am talking about.”

Ifs Feels Should Writing Trying Wells Ideas Eye Talking Translate

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“That is the difference between a good song and a bad song lyrically - if you can listen to it and put yourself in that place, or see that person in that place, normally it is a pretty good song.”

Ifs Persons Song Differences

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“What is hot now will not be hot tomorrow, I promise you. Trends are made to die. It's the truth.”

Made Dies Tomorrow Promise Hot Trends I Promise

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“I want to write for people that are trying to do some kind of quality music. What I mean by quality music is not so much the trend, what is hot right now. I don't write trendy, I write what feels good and something that feels good will never get old. Timeless music is what I try to shoot for.”

People Want Feels Writing Trying Kind Mean Quality Right Now Music Is Hot Feel Good Trends Timeless Good Will Old Time Trendy Quality Music Timeless Music

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“For those people who want to keep following trends, you do that and when the trend goes away so will you.”

People Want Following Trends

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“What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.”

Artist Simple Periods Songwriters

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“I named my album Year of the Gentleman. Just looking at how the essence of what it is to be a gentleman is very much lacking nowadays. Someone said to me that chivalry is dead, and I hated to have to agree, but it's true.”

Years Said Essence Agree Albums Hated Gentleman Lacking Chivalry

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“Women wanted to be viewed as equals to men. So men were like, 'You wanna be viewed as equal to me, then open your own damn door.' But I still don't view it as an excuse to be an a**hole.”

Men Stills Wanted Views Doors Like You Equal Excuse Holes Damn Women Want

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“The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman.”

Way Essence Treats Gentleman Respectable

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“I always refer back to the days of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, the Rat Pack. Back when everyone wore a suit because that's what it was to be an entertainer. You were stylish and you were fly, and it was an effortless fly.”

Suits Frank Packs Rats Entertainers Back When Dean Effortless Stylish Rat Pack

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“A lot of time we don't get into politics because we don't believe anything you're saying and we can't understand what you're saying because we ask you question and you tap dance around the issue so much that we forget what we asked.”

Believe Asks Forget Issues Don't Believe Tap Dance

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“I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period.”

Thinking Feels Artist Periods Honestly Appreciated

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“Everybody wants me to be the (guy) who's (sleeping with) every celebrity woman in the industry. Everybody wants me to be this (guy) in the club, popping 17 bottles just because. Everybody wants me to be Diddy, and that's not me.”

Want Guy Sleep Industry Clubs Bottles Want Me This Guy Popping

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“Every song I've ever written has been based in reality, based in fact, things that happen to me.”

Has Beens Facts Reality Happens Song Written

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“I probably wouldn't be singing if not for Michael Jackson. When I started singing, I didn't like my tone until my mom put me on to Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, so listening to the way they used their instrument helped me get more comfortable with my own.”

Ifs Way Used My Own Wonder Listening Mom Comfortable Singing Instruments My Mom Tone

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“I wanted to do an acting role in a movie that had nothing to do with the music business or in which I would play a singer or a songwriter. When I act, I don't even want to be thought of as Ne-Yo.”

Want Play Wanted Acting Roles Singers Songwriters Music Business

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“If you believe in yourself, it doesn't matter what others might be telling you is impossible. It's all up to you!”

Ifs Believe Matter Might Impossible Believe In Yourself Believe In You Up To You If You Believe If You Believe In Yourself

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“I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection.”

Want Perfection Imperfection Perfectionist

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“I'm 100% real, even when what's real is ugly. I don't take any pride in covering up, hiding and lying.”

Real Lying Pride Ugly Hiding Covering

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“Fear is a healthy part of success.”

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“I watch cartoons the way most adults watch reality-TV shows.”

Way Shows Reality Watches Tvs Adults Tv Shows Cartoon Reality Tv

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“I do not cook. However, if I did, I'd cook all Italian food, all the time.”

Ifs Cooks Italian Italian Food

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“There is no pain like the first time you get your heart broken.”

Firsts Heart Pain Broken First Time Heart Broke No Pain

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“If you want to be successful, you have to be the best person doing it. And in order to be the best person doing it, you have to get your work ethic right and keep going.”

Ifs Want Persons Order Successful Ethics Being The Best Being Successful Keep Going Work Ethic Best Person

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“I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever vessel God chooses.”

People Want Feels Soul Rooms Vessel

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“As of right this second my main focus is my new album, it'll be out probably towards the summertime, predominately R&B this time. I had a little stint with the dance music and all of that, which I had a good time with- and I love the audience, I love them for accepting me doing it -but I had to go home on this one. Had to take it back to my roots, and not to say that there won't be one, maybe two songs on there that the dance crowd can get into, but the majority, the girth of the album, will be R&B.”

Littles Two Home Song Accepting Audience Focus Roots Majority Albums Crowds Good Times Summertime Dance Music Had A Good Time Girth

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“There wasn't a lot of R&B cats doing songs at 120 beats per minute before 'Closer,' which I take full credit and responsibility for. That's all good, but it was an experiment. You experiment with something, if it goes good, cool, but you never forget where you come from and R&B is where I come from.”

Ifs Song Forget Responsibility Minutes Beats Cat Credit Experiments Never Forget Where You Come

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“For the first few years of my life my mom used to cut my hair so there were a lot of bowl-cut hair styles”

Years Firsts Used Cutting Style Hair Mom My Mom Bowls Bowl Cuts

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“My mom was the picture of the blue-collar mom: Two and three and four jobs to make sure that me and my sister never needed, that was her thing”

Two Jobs Three Four Mom Needed Blue My Mom My Sister Collars Blue Collar

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“This is ridiculous. It's been months and for some reason I just can't get over us. I'm stronger than this. Enough is enough; no more walking around with my head down, I'm so over being blue crying over you.”

Reason Enough Cry Months Walking Stronger Blue Ridiculous Breakup Over You Get Over Break Up Enough Is Enough

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“Grab somebody sexy, tell the hey!”

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“She's super sexy everybody wanna know bout her and the one that everybody want, but no one's ever got her. Because the way she get it in all of the men, even the women all try, all try.”

Knows Men Way Want Trying He Man Sexy Super Sexy

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“Sexy as she wanna be and she dancing next so close to me. I said please excuse, you steppin on expensive shoes.”

Said Next Please Dancing Shoes Excuse Sexy Expensive Excuse You

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About the Author

Born: October 18, 1982
Known for: Singer-songwriter
Quotes: 39

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