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Creativity Quote by Janet Jackson

"You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time"

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Creative comfort is a drug, and Janet Jackson names the come-down with a dancer’s precision. She’s talking about choreography, but the real subject is artistic dependency: how a single trusted collaborator can quietly become your default vocabulary. “You get used to” sounds casual, almost tender, yet it carries a warning. Routine doesn’t just streamline the work; it narrows the imagination until you “get stuck in that vein,” a phrase that turns style into circulation - something that can harden, clog, and limit movement.

What makes the quote hit is its lack of melodrama. Janet doesn’t frame growth as a lightning-bolt reinvention. She frames it as rehab: you “work your way out of it,” then you absorb “someone else’s style, their flavor.” That’s a blunt admission that evolution is often borrowed before it becomes personal. The word “flavor” keeps it grounded in the body and the senses, reminding you that dance trends, like musical ones, travel through taste, through scenes, through who you’re spending time with.

Context matters because Janet’s career is basically a masterclass in controlled transformation: tightly conceptual eras, iconic movement language, and high-stakes visual presentation. In pop, sameness can read as brand consistency until it suddenly reads as stagnation. She’s acknowledging the time lag between deciding to change and actually moving differently. Not overnight. Not effortlessly. “It takes a bit of time” lands as both patience and discipline - the unglamorous truth behind a “new era.”

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Janet Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is a Musician from USA.

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