75+ Mary J. Blige Quotes On Marriage, Power And Lifetime

Mary J. Blige is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is a multi-platinum selling artist who has sold over 80 million records worldwide. She is known for her soulful R&B sound and has won numerous awards, including nine Grammy Awards. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Mary J. Blige on life, marriage, love.

Top 10 Mary J. Blige Quotes

1. I listen to gospel music.
2. Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.
3. Believe in yourself when nobody else does.
4. You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.
5. I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.
6. In your life there's peaks and valleys and sometimes we regress, and we don't even know we regress. You just have to learn how to accept all of your mistakes and learn to love yourself again.
7. I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.
8. It's OK showing yourself some love.
9. I don't want no drama in my life, even though we have a little bit, but no more letting people control you. That's drama, because then you become something that you're not.
10. I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.

Mary J. Blige Short Quotes

• It's up to us to choose whether we win or lose...and I choose to win.
• Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.
• I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.
• When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.
• My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me.
• I do consider myself part of black history.
• It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.
• When you're going to do whatever you're going to do, you have to get your, put your mind into it.
• I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.
• I like what I see when I'm looking at me when I'm walking past the mirror.

Mary J. Blige Quotes About Life

We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life. — Mary J. Blige

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it. — Mary J. Blige

'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base. — Mary J. Blige

For the first time in my life, I'm proud of myself. — Mary J. Blige

Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life. — Mary J. Blige

I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music. — Mary J. Blige

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

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music. — Mary J. Blige

Mary J. Blige Quotes About Love

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody. — Mary J. Blige

Love is wonderful, amazing, and the best thing that can happen to us. — Mary J. Blige

...I would be a liar and my fans would hate me if I said to them, 'Oh, we're perfect and everything is great.' We have situations just like everyone else. We're not out in public trying to kill each other, but it's real. We love each other. — Mary J. Blige

It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around. — Mary J. Blige

I'm searching for a real love. — Mary J. Blige

God loves me and sent his son to die for me so I have to live to please him because he saved me when everyone abandoned me. — Mary J. Blige

Mary J. Blige Quotes About Music

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has. — Mary J. Blige

Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial! — Mary J. Blige

I can see the music. I know what it looks like. I know what color it is. The words come easy, the tears come easy, and the joy comes easy. The music tells you what to do. — Mary J. Blige

I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business. — Mary J. Blige

The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are. — Mary J. Blige

Mary J. Blige Famous Quotes And Sayings

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside. Understanding that everything that comes to you is what you are. Everything from friends to boyfriends to the job you get - it's all a direct reflection of what you are on the inside. — Mary J. Blige

It's that first step-getting out the door-that's the toughest. If you can do that, you've already won. — Mary J. Blige

When I was five years old I was molested and just, you know. I remember feeling, literally right before it happened, I just could not believe that this person was going to do this to me. That thing followed me all my life. The shame of thinking my molestation was my fault - it led me to believe I wasn't worth anything. — Mary J. Blige

I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children. — Mary J. Blige

People in my neighborhood inspired me to sing. Believe in your ability no matter what, but be realistic with yourself and your ability. — Mary J. Blige

I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that. — Mary J. Blige

You have to create different things, either through lighting or changing the format of the songs and how you're going to sing them, and even sometimes props. — Mary J. Blige

Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, its more exciting performing live. — Mary J. Blige

I'm hoping that my entrepreneurial side will have me at a place where I don't have to do anything. That's what I'm striving for. — Mary J. Blige

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 barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part. — Mary J. Blige

The important thing is to realize that no matter what people's opinions may be, they're only just that - people's opinions. You have to believe in your heart what you know to be true about yourself. And let that be that. — Mary J. Blige

My first album is playful. — Mary J. Blige

I mean, I know my heart is not clean, and your heart is not clean, and none of our urban hearts are clean. But you can be washed again. — Mary J. Blige

You know a lot, but you don't know everything. — Mary J. Blige

You have to have a plan. Everything has to be planned. For me, I start with the title of my album, before I even start with the songs. I write down different things that I want album to say, and then the songs come from the different words. — Mary J. Blige

I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it. — Mary J. Blige

When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader. — Mary J. Blige

The streets respect me because I kept it real with me. You gotta be real with yourself, and the streets recognize game. — Mary J. Blige

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life. — Mary J. Blige

Don't go a full day or night without washing your face. You have to get all the dirt and makeup out of your pores. — Mary J. Blige

The fact is that everyone at the labels wants to do what everyone else is doing. You have to look like her; you have to be like her; you have to sing like her, and no one can express themselves. I look at Rihanna and I am so proud of her. She speaks loudly! You have to stand up and clap. She expresses herself through fashion. She actually can sing. And her songs mean something, even to me, you know? — Mary J. Blige

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside. — Mary J. Blige

I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does. — Mary J. Blige

That's the message I want to give to every up-and-coming artist: Do everything that is going to help you later. If you clone somebody else, that's all they're gonna keep wanting from you. — Mary J. Blige

I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people. — Mary J. Blige

When I`m going to do a Christmas album I had to put my mind in Christmas mode. I had to go back to being a child and remembering all of that. When I go to do a project, I'm serious about it, so I wrap my world around it, and it becomes Christmastime for me and I'm singing songs like it's Christmas day. — Mary J. Blige

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education. — Mary J. Blige

The only person that I'm really feeling - because she has an identity of her own, even though she has listened to Mary J. Blige - is Jill Scott. — Mary J. Blige

I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot. — Mary J. Blige

We are all just a work in progress. — Mary J. Blige

No one compares to you. Just remember that. There's no one out there - there's only one of you, and that's it. And whatever you believe about you that's great, no one else has it. And I can't look like you, there's no way I can slip into your body and be you, and you can't slip into my body and be me. This is all we're gonna get. — Mary J. Blige

Cause I'm no better than you, you, or you. And I can't get on no throne and preach, 'cause I'm not God. — Mary J. Blige

As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me; they were always scared that somebody was going to take me. — Mary J. Blige

In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different. — Mary J. Blige

It's sad that a lot of identities are lost and a lot of careers are lost because there's sort of a clone thing going on. — Mary J. Blige

Life Lessons by Mary J. Blige

1. Mary J. Blige has demonstrated the importance of resilience and self-belief in the face of adversity, showing that with hard work and dedication anything is possible.
2. She has also shown the power of music to bring people together and to inspire and empower others.
3. Her work has highlighted the importance of being true to yourself, and of using your own unique talents and abilities to make a positive difference in the world.