198 Quotes by 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.

You demand respect and you’ll get it. First of all, you give respect.

There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I’m not giving them the satisfaction.

Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you’re up-and-coming or you’ve been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.

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.

The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don’t stay true to who you are.

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.

I’m a singer who thinks like a rapper.

It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It’s very scary.