100 Quotes by Raheem DeVaughn

There's a difference between making the music for a check vs. what you think you should be doing artistically and creatively.

Social networks didn't exist when I started. Twitter and Facebook didn't exist. It was all about MySpace when I first got in the game.

I just feel like there's a lot of great R&B songs out there with nobody to sing them.

My mom and my grandmother are probably two of the strongest women that I know.

I walked away from the Jive Records situation, but I still have a great relationship with a lot of the workers and a lot of people who were in that system that have moved on to other places. I felt like being there; it totally wasn't understood what the Raheem DeVaughn movement was about.

I was frustrated in the past, like, 'Wow, why do they have to throw me in the R&B urban adult contemporary lane?' 'Woman' was a no. 1 hit at Urban AC, so there's no disrespect to that lane. But did it get a fair shot at urban radio? No, I don't think so.

I'm constantly reinventing myself. It's a constant thing that I do.

I always been inspired and aspire to inspire through the music. I feel like I've always made the soundtrack to a movement.

If I'm not representing the people with my music for the goodwill of the Creator, it's all in vain at the end of the day.