Lionel Richie Quotes

I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it does: It strips away all of your facade. It makes you so honest. It's cleansing.
Lionel Richie

Pain, Greatest, Find

Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.
Lionel Richie

Love, Career, Made

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.
Lionel Richie

Saying, Career, Sing

All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.
Lionel Richie

Artists, Maniacs, Complexes

Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be true to yourself and your musical vision. People have known me well for a long time, so if I was chasing a trend and doing something that wasn't authentic to who I am, they would know it in just a few seconds.
Lionel Richie

Love, Time, Art

By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.
Lionel Richie

Country, Whole, Growing

Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But its just in the music, its not so much in the songwriting, which is still very basic to the storytelling aspect of it.
Lionel Richie

Music, Rock, Country

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.
Lionel Richie

Music, Country, Close

Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.
Lionel Richie

Life, Time, Great

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.
Lionel Richie

Home, Fear, Fight

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.
Lionel Richie

Music, Country, Perfect

I always like to challenge myself. I never want to be put into a box.
Lionel Richie

Challenge, Put, Box

I am a country boy and proud of it.
Lionel Richie

Country, Proud, Boy

I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home.
Lionel Richie

Home, Confidence, Find

I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.
Lionel Richie

West, Realizing, Grand

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.
Lionel Richie

Fame, Hold, Fortune

I knew I was going to do a country album one day. But I was just trying to figure out for the life of me, what we were going to do to make it different, unique.
Lionel Richie

Life, Different, Trying

I think the whole world is dying to hear someone say, 'I love you.' I think that if I can leave the legacy of love and passion in the world, then I think I've done my job in a world that's getting colder and colder by the day.
Lionel Richie

Love, Job, Someone

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.
Lionel Richie

Religion, Smile, Travel

I want to let everybody know that I'm from there, and country is Tuskegee. Or should I say rather, my country is Tuskegee. I was born and raised there, it's not just someplace I passed through one day.
Lionel Richie

Through, Country, Rather

I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.
Lionel Richie

Greatest, Tell, Lives

It was very interesting in my world, because I grew up as a fan and I did not know that there was a thing called R&B, pop, country, classical - I just knew that I loved music.
Lionel Richie

Music, Country, Loved

It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on campus. R&B music was, of course, the community, and radio was country music. So I can kind of see where all the influences came from.
Lionel Richie

Music, Country, Growing

Just when I think it couldn't get any bigger, 'Tuskegee' reaches a new level of success.
Lionel Richie

Success, Level, Bigger

Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in your head, 'don't get too famous.' If you think you're really famous and think you're really hip, go hang out with your kids for an afternoon. That's about as earthbound as it's going to get.
Lionel Richie

Life, Great, Famous

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Nationality: American

Born: June 20, 1949

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