Pendergrass Quotes

#1. I could go old-school; I listen to a lot of old-school music, like Teddy Pendergrass, the Temptations, people like that. I'm an old-school dude, and I'm vibin' with stuff like that to clear my mind. I like listening to that old-school music.

Ace Hood

#2. I run with music all the time. I cannot run without my iPod. I have everything. Teddy Pendergrass. Luther Van Dross. Michael Jackson. Outkast. If an Usher song comes on and it's fast, I go fast.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#3. Whenever perfection becomes the goal, it becomes the enemy of progress.

Amy Pendergrass

#4. I can't speak for everybody, I think, for me, I will not be defined by the lyrics of my song. I am a man who does music. It's like clothes don't make the man, the man makes the clothes. It's, it's like that song don't make me, I make the song.

Teddy Pendergrass

#5. The ragged skyline of the city resembled the disturbed encephalograph of an unresolved mental crisis.

J.G. Ballard

#6. Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

Teddy Pendergrass

#7. People tell me judge not lest ye be judged. I always tell them, twist not scripture lest ye be like satan.

Paul David Washer

#8. If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.

Teddy Pendergrass

#9. When I go on stage I am just, I don't make any attempts to do anything more than just what makes me comfortable.

Teddy Pendergrass

#10. I love to be in control of everything I do and everything around me. So that means, you give me a romantic lyric and I'll make the atmosphere, I will build on that. And then the song then becomes, it takes me to do the song, it's just a belief, it's just who I am.

Teddy Pendergrass

#11. I just know that I wasn't happy where I was. I didn't feel complete. I didn't feel like I was contributing what I needed to contribute to not only to my, my, my fans that I had begun to gather but to myself most of all, most importantly for me.

Teddy Pendergrass

#12. It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.

Teddy Pendergrass

#13. From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.

Teddy Pendergrass

#14. The majority of my audience has always been women.

Teddy Pendergrass

#15. In the end, people will not be judged by the darkness they lived in, but by the light they rejected.

Anthony Liccione

#16. I don't ever feel that it's necessary to say certain things. I think we can be very suggestive. I think we can allude to certain things.

Teddy Pendergrass

#17. I was introduced to spinning. It was so intense! It's the hardest workout you've ever done, and afterwards you feel amazing.

Scott Michael Foster

#18. I've never written for anybody else. For me, it was a challenge. I write for me. I don't write for anybody else. And what was good about it was that I was writing for somebody I knew. I knew what my mother thinks and how she feels. So it was finding that creative spirit to write about my mother.

Teddy Pendergrass

#19. Nothing in my songs is disrespective.

Teddy Pendergrass

#20. As a matter of fact my, my very first time singing when I was two and a half, three, was in church. So, ahm, church is very, very much a part of who I am.

Teddy Pendergrass

#21. As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must serve.

Ernest L. Boyer

#22. I've always been one to take chances and I've always been one to, to create or follow through with instincts.

Teddy Pendergrass

#23. In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.

J. Michael Straczynski