Top 23 Merry Clayton Quotes
#1. I always say that I went to the College of Blossoms and the University of Ray Charles.
Merry Clayton
#2. I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming in here and singing on Sunday morning.'
Merry Clayton
#3. I have always said every good thing is divinely sent from heaven.
Merry Clayton
#4. I understand why it's hard to pin me down because I really relate to so many things. Like, for example, when people ask me what's my favorite music, I can't tell them. I love everything.
Lindsay Pearce
#5. I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasn't a big solo artist.
Merry Clayton
#6. My dad sung and played piano. But he was also a man of God. He was a minister. So when Sam Cooke would come in town, you know, with The Soul Stirrers at that time, he was singing gospel, they would end up at my dad's church, and it would always be a guest singer for Sunday morning.
Merry Clayton
#7. I knew how to sing in choirs and sing in church, but I didn't know how to sing in a studio. That's what Darlene and the Blossoms taught me to do - to be a studio singer.
Merry Clayton
#8. When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
Idries Shah
#9. My family is part Creole, and we're Indian, and we're also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.
Merry Clayton
#10. From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
Lucretius
#11. Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church.
Merry Clayton
#12. Life itself is a disease and we're all going to die eventually. How we live our life really determines what the quality of our life is. If we can make life more worth living, we will reduce the problems of addictive behavior.
Christopher Kennedy Lawford
#13. Back when I was working with the Stones and with Joe Cocker and Neil Young and Neil Diamond and all of those - 'the boys,' I call them - it was fun.
Merry Clayton
#15. In my experience, those for whom war is lucrative are rarely satisfied. For them, war is opportunity, not hardship or sorrow. After all, it is rarely their sons who lie in unmarked graves on foreign soil.
C.S. Harris
#16. You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in.
Merry Clayton
#17. Carole King is one of my dearest friends. We're like family.
Merry Clayton
#18. Stay cool, stay humble, stay beautiful, and just do the work
Merry Clayton
#20. My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.
Merry Clayton
#21. I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.
Merry Clayton
#22. I felt like if I just gave my heart to what I was doing, I would automatically be a star.
Merry Clayton
#23. I started with Bobby Darin. He signed me to Capitol when I was 15. I was 14, getting ready to be 15. Then the next encounter I had was with I think Peggy Lee. I sang background with The Blossoms with Darlene Love.
Merry Clayton
