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“You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.”

Mary J. Blige · Respect

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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.

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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.

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