top of page
.png){kind=small}
"It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black."
Standard
Customized
More
"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
Author Name
Personal Development
""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit."
Author Name
Personal Development
"One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Sound is the first thing that we tune into."
Author Name
Personal Development
"My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
Author Name
Personal Development
"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
Author Name
Personal Development
"First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't."
Music
"I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing."
Music
"Well, I tried to get a record deal in 1966 or '67, and everyone thought I was too eclectic."
Thought
"We are in this period now where we all are trying to be in shape physically and deny ourselves any pleasure."
Now
"I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack."
Fear
"No, because I've never really changed my style that much."
Style
"You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new."
Old
"I took it to heart that in order to be a good person, you never said anything mean about anybody."
Heart
"A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars."
War
"But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers."
Brother
bottom of page