Top 18 Alberta Hunter Quotes
#1. I was always drawn to the blues. Alberta Hunter at the Cookery was a life-changing experience. I only wanted to get enriched as a performer as I got older, to have an audience which got older, too, and would come to see me when I'm 80.
Bonnie Raitt
#2. None of them going to treat me bad, honey, I'm too strict for that.
Alberta Hunter
#3. I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing, ...
Alberta Hunter
#4. People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow ... The blues is about truth-telling.
Alberta Hunter
#5. Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.
Alberta Hunter
#6. You don't want to be with someone who is already not getting from you what he needs emotionally.
Carolyn Hax
#7. Until they put that sand and dirt in my face I will not sit in church all day.
Alberta Hunter
#8. I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.
Alberta Hunter
#9. The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.
Alberta Hunter
#11. Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Andy Warhol
#12. Today, with tears in my eyes, I telephoned the mother of one of our children (aged thirteen) who had spoken for the first time since the age of three...
Michael Braccia
#13. I've been more places by accident than most people have been on purpose.
Alberta Hunter
#14. Picasso is a character that has pursued me for a long time and I always rejected. He deserves a lot of respect because I am from Malaga, and I was born four blocks from where he was born.
Antonio Banderas
#15. Whenever faced with a challenge, I dig deep within myself and summon my spiritual and physical forces. This gives me the focus, determination, perseverance, and support I need to succeed.
Gail Devers
#17. Maybe if I knew music I couldn't do what I am doing.
Alberta Hunter
