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“Soul is a feeling, not a color,”
-- Lionel Richie

#Color #Soul #Feelings
“I think the whole world is dying to hear someone say, 'I love you.' I think that if I can leave the legacy of love and passion in the world, then I think I've done my job in a world that's getting colder and colder by the day.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Jobs #Love You #Passion
“Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Home #Fighting #Greatness
“So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Careers #People #Way
“Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.”
-- Lionel Richie

#People #Want #Siege
“I'm easy like Sunday Morning...”
-- Lionel Richie

#Morning #Sunday #Sunday Morning
“It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on campus. R&B music was, of course, the community, and radio was country music. So I can kind of see where all the influences came from.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Country #Growing Up #Interesting
“The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Mother #Love You #Kids
“I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Song #Pain #Doe
“All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Artist #Inferiority #Egotistical
“When will we ever learn, there's nowhere else we can turn.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Education #Turns
“No one can deny, this love I have inside, and I'll give it all to you, my endless love.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Romantic #Giving #Endless Love
“Let the music play on would be my legacy.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Play #Legacy #Would Be
“People have allowed me into their homes, through my words and my music.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Home #People
“By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Country #Growing Up #Pie
“Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Years #Forget #Enough
“I am a country boy and proud of it.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Country #Boys #Country Boy
“Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Travel #Ideas #Watches
“Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Thank You #Song #Careers
“I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Home #Going Out
“I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Nashville #Used #Music Business
“Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Country #Growing Up #Grandmother
“The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Love #Fun #Fall
“Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Country #Kings #Rocks
“Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be true to yourself and your musical vision. People have known me well for a long time, so if I was chasing a trend and doing something that wasn't authentic to who I am, they would know it in just a few seconds.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Art #Believe #Who I Am
“People, as critical as it looks, we're OK. We are in control, whether we feel it or not.”
-- Lionel Richie

#People #Looks #Feels
“My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Country #Memories
“Just when I think it couldn't get any bigger, 'Tuskegee' reaches a new level of success.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Thinking #Levels #Bigger
“I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.”
-- Lionel Richie

#People #Stories #Want
“I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.”
-- Lionel Richie

#Bucks #West #Realizing

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