Mary J. Blige Song Quotations

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.

It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.

I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

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.

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.

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.

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.