John Legend Quotes:
Ocupation: Singer-songwriter
Life: b. December 28, 1978
Birthday: December 28
I think it's hard to really write a song that will educate someone because songs are meant to be ... you don't want to be too didactic in a song because it doesn't make for good music. And I think the role of songs can be to inspire people but there needs to education and prose to back that up.
source: "Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. with John Legend". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 4, 2008. 
topic: Song, Writing, Thinking, Didactic
