Top 33 CeeLo Green Quotes

Antique things have an appreciation and worth. Something can be old, but it can be timeless; therefore, it becomes an antique. If this antique is preserved and deemed precious, it could be passed down as a family heirloom.

Ultimately, I’m a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

In my opinion, hip-hop has a lot to do with rock and roll, because at one point it was considered an alternative – edgy, independent. Hip-hop is pots and pans the way that punk is garage. You make something out of nothing.

I don’t eat a lot of junk food anymore, but I sure remember it. I used to go through boxes of Little Debbies. I liked Star Crunch, and of course those oatmeal pies.

I believe that the plight of life and all existence is to master one’s self, you know, one day at a time.

I think I’ll always be famous. I just hope I don’t become infamous.

I want to burn as a beacon of possibility. I don’t want nobody to misconstrue the commercial success I’ve had as anything other than an example of what black music is capable of. And what it’s capable of is being more than just black. I’m not black or white anymore. I’m Cee Lo Green.

For me as an artist, the expansiveness of my interests and my influences make me enigmatic. I think any man can be that way – if you love enough interesting things.

I don’t judge people. I don’t even judge people on ‘The Voice.’ I’m a coach. I’m there for constructive criticism and to aid and abet and discover new talent.

I’m a normal guy at heart. But on stage, they don’t pay me for normal.

I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.

I tend to like antique things. Something can be old, but it can be timeless.

You can’t be all of the people you’re influenced by, so you make your own filter and create your own beautiful, unique thing in the world. Soak up the world, man, and make something of your own.

My varied listening palette is all-inclusive of all walks of life. No one individual is exempt from the human experience, so it is that intangible that is a universal truth. In that regard, I’ve had success in encapsulating something cosmic.

Like most artists, I live out of a suitcase.

I’m like Shrek. Shrek’s a nice guy, but people keep alienating him, like they did with me in my younger life. I’m very loving and kind and generous – I’m a sweetheart!

I would like to be a gang leader on ‘Sons of Anarchy’ or own a lemonade stand on ‘Boardwalk Empire.’

Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they’ve been given.

Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance – in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything.

Honestly, this face of mine will always be familiar to people. It’s that unique quality, man. If it’s a dark and crowded room, people are just able to point me out. I think I’ll always be famous. I just hope I don’t become infamous.

I’m all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you’re not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you’re out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive.

I’m not trying to emulate or imitate. But I do believe that I embody that spirit from Robert Johnson on up.

I hate hateful people.

Goodie Mob is my passion, the core of me, the fight, the struggle. I’m still as much of an underdog as I ever was, and my music is still as anti-establishment as it ever was. I want to satisfy that rebel side. It’s not null and void. I’m a whole being, and I’m just coming back full circle.

The fact that you can love something that you’ve lost is all the incentive you need to love again, as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience – I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

My insurance provider probably wouldn’t allow me to go into a mosh pit anymore. My brain is insured by Lloyd’s of London, you know what I’m saying?

On a good day I think I’m handsome, on an average day I’m average. I’m a man’s man so I don’t necessarily know how cute we’re supposed to be.

All art stems from a place of alienation. Intimate and alone. Most people are oppressed by the opinion of others, but I was not that way. I was afraid of the repercussions of not doing what I was told to do, what I was called to do by a creator.

Emotion is something that you don’t simply receive. Emotion is compelled. Other than that, we’re just shells until we’re possessed or reanimated from time to time by different emotions.

I have one thing that I’m saving for my son. It’s a 1965 Chevy Impala Super Sport. It’s a beautiful sea-foam green color. It’s like a teal green, white interior, and it’s just a gorgeous car.

Rock n’ roll is not just a fashion statement; it is the attitude, and it has a political posturing as well.

I may sample at Pinkberry, but when I find a flavor I like, I’m pretty committed to it.