Top 47 Chaka Khan Quotes
#1. There is no perfect love - that's something I'm very realistic about.
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#2. If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.
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#3. I'd like to work on putting art programs back in schools.
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#4. I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me - I'm my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don't feel successful. I'm nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals.
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#5. It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.
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#6. But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.
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#7. You know, it's just tough to get together and do work with somebody.
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#8. I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.
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#9. I mean, I'm not unhappy, but there's still so much I want to do.
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#10. There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.
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#11. Being a singer is a way for me to get to a platform to do more.
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#12. Your moment of clarity comes when you face your fears. Sobriety gave me back me - my life. Self-medication kills you slowly. You can never get a handle on that. It's a highly destructive force that has to be dealt with on a spiritual level as much as a physical one.
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#13. When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.
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#14. My mom took me to see Goldfinger. My mom took me to see To Sir, With Love.
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#15. My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.
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#16. I'm an extremely determined person. I'm very serious about what I do.
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#17. If we could just see how related we all are, how we're really all in the same place.
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#18. I won't become a household word, or achieve the fame I deserve in my lifetime because of the way I look.
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#19. Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.
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#20. I'm a woman and I'm a backbone ... everybody needs one.
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#21. I've been collaborating with Ira Schickman on some songs, and there will be many other, great musicians involved.
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#22. I want to give some positive messages and to empower some people.
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#23. I loved him [Prince], the world loved him.Now he's at peace with his Father.Rest in power, Prince , my brother.
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#24. One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out.
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#25. But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.
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#26. I've always struggled so much just to appreciate myself.
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#29. Every personal experience of my life impacts my music. I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back. I often fix it or color it differently or give it in my way, but thats what its about.
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#30. My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
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#31. I have a lot of charity work I'm into right now, and selling my Chakalates - supporting that whole effort.
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#32. A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody happy. It's a false thing. It's like a lullaby as opposed to a gun. People need to be slapped into reality and music just doesn't do that.
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#33. I have some scars ... lots of internal ones. But they're all scabbed over.
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#34. I love to sing. It's the easiest thing for me to do.
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#35. In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.
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#36. America breeds ambition and while that can be a good thing, sometimes it's not. Ambition also breeds competition and that can be a very bad thing. People become chronically preoccupied with competing and don't know when to stop. It can become unhealthy.
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#37. I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.
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#38. Getting a degree, being on Sesame Street ... those were like real accomplishments to me.
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#39. To me, this degree was an acknowledgment of my work in music.
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#40. Walking through this life really is walking through fire.
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#41. As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.
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#42. The bickering and fighting and hating that women do with each other - it's going to kill us as a race of people.
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#43. Spirituality has played an amazing part. Its been paramount in my life.
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#44. If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.
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#45. I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back.
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#46. I remember seeing the movie 'To Sir With Love' when I was a little girl.
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#47. Everyone in my family sang, and we would always sing these songs.
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