Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing. "

Related Quotes:

" I would never do an album with 10 songs like 'Jump Start' on it. I'll only go so far to please fans. "

" There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it. "

" I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances. "

" I was going to college to be a doctor. "

" Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing. "

" A lot of people want to donate a kidney, but they're not in a position to because they have health issues of their own, and a lot of people need them. That's why the list is long and it takes a long time. "

" When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element? "

" I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent. "

" It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener. "

" I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966. "

" If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy. "

" I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it. "

" I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life. "

" Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept. "

" As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids. "

" The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys. "

" Aretha Franklin does not like me. "

Aretha Franklin

" I started saying, 'I don't want to be crazy anymore.' I need to make some changes. And the first thing I started doing was just got all the men out of my life, because that was a big problem for me. That was a crutch, if you will. You know, trying to define yourself through other people or men, in particular. "

" God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me. "

" I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees. "

" I think people hear the warmth in my voice and the friendliness, and they think: 'Oh, she must be a very nice person'. "

" I managed to survive the worst things any entertainer could possibly go through. "

" We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far. "

" I think that talented people really do have insecurities, and that is one of the things that kind of motivates them, because that's one thing they know they're good at. And when they're up on that stage, you can do no wrong. The audience is yours; they're there to see you. "

" There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet. "

" I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.' "

" Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day. "

" I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down. "

" People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way. "

" I've always loved Spanish. I love my father's Spanish records. "