Peabo Quotes

#1. I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.

Peabo Bryson

#2. Personally, I always thought married sex was the best sex. Owen and I knew each other's bodies, our favorite parts. There was the trust factor, the love, the like. It was always good.

Kristan Higgins

#3. If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.

Peabo Bryson

#4. I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.

Peabo Bryson

#5. A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

Beatrice Wood

#6. There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

Peabo Bryson

#7. The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#8. The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

Carson Daly

#9. We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it ... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

Ed Wood

#10. If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.

Peabo Bryson

#11. This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire. It becomes a habit of thought. Once acquired, we cannot retreat from it anymore.

Richard P. Feynman

#12. I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.

Steve Earle

#13. I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.

Peabo Bryson

#14. I would prefer to die than to be depressed for depression can hurt you everyday and it'll last for a lifetime while on dying, you can only feel pain the moment you'll die.

Cedric Go

#15. If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.

Peabo Bryson

#16. Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

Peabo Bryson

#17. I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

Peabo Bryson

#18. We all wish to protect our loved ones from pain. But part of loving is sharing....Sharing hopes and fears, pain and loss, bodies and minds. Why else love?

Elizabeth Vaughan

#19. But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.

Peabo Bryson

#20. There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.

Peabo Bryson

#21. It doesn't mean that I won't be sexy or hip or anything like that.

Peabo Bryson

#22. For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.

Peabo Bryson

#23. In condemning, therefore, the vices of a father, a truly pious son will subscribe to God's Law; and still, whatsoever he may be, will acknowledge that he is to be honored, as being the father given him by God.

John Calvin

#24. I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.

Peabo Bryson

#26. In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.

Peabo Bryson

#27. Trends don't mean very much.

Peabo Bryson

#28. I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

Peabo Bryson

#29. The poetic does not misrepresent the speech one half so much as the speech misrepresents the soul.

G.K. Chesterton

#30. Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

Peabo Bryson

#31. I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.

Peabo Bryson

#32. The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

Peabo Bryson

#33. I think you create your own hipness.

Peabo Bryson

#34. I'm not angry at anyone.

Peabo Bryson

#35. Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

Peabo Bryson

#36. There were two display windows, one on each side of the door, and in the windows were ... well, books. What this street really needed was a bar.

Nelson DeMille