Top 41 Quotes About Dusty Springfield: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Dusty Springfield

#1. I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn't cool to listen to country when I was 12.

Jenny Lewis

#2. I inspect the notebook of CDs laying on the floor. There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian,

Rachel Cohn

#3. I don't like karaoke very much. I like being around it, but I don't like singing it. If I had to sing a karaoke song, it's usually "Son of a Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield.

Sara Bareilles

#4. Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.

Will Hermes

#5. I've always loved Dusty Springfield and Martha Reeves.

Solange Knowles

#6. A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.

Dusty Springfield

#7. You don't have to say you love me, just be close at hand. You don't have to stay for ever, I will understand.

Dusty Springfield

#8. Take care, father," said Bulloch gently, "that what you call murder and robbery may not really be war and conquest, those sacred foundations of empires, those sources of all human virtues and all human greatness.

Anatole France

#9. I try to be as unsexy as possible.

Dusty Springfield

#10. These heels are candy for the feet; they're for pleasure, not practicality.

Christian Louboutin

#11. I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

Dusty Springfield

#12. Sometimes the ladies involved give too much of themselves, sometimes not enough.

Dusty Springfield

#13. Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness.

Dusty Springfield

#14. It was a shitshow of emotional carnage, just pure tear-soaked chaos worse than any Grey's Anatomy episode.

Karina Halle

#15. Basically I'm a drag queen myself.

Dusty Springfield

#16. As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#17. I used so much hairspray that I feel personally responsible for global warming!

Dusty Springfield

#18. Hell, have I been a hell-raiser!

Dusty Springfield

#19. Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

Seneca The Younger

#20. I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.

Alice Walker

#21. Whatever your personal political feelings are, if you become involved in them publicly you're bound to come out the loser.

Dusty Springfield

#22. We're losing ground. This planet is losing ground. So things need to happen and they need to happen quick. Our message should be-loud and clear-there comes a time when the home needs protecting and the line needs drawing and anybody that dares cross it acts at their own peril.

Diane Wilson

#23. Worried about dry skin? Concerned about lines and wrinkles? Then visit a burns unit and get some perspective.

Shaun Micallef

#24. I burp like everyone else and I'm promiscuous.

Dusty Springfield

#25. When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

Jonny Greenwood

#26. Bishop Hostettler explained that baptism was not the means by which one is saved, but simply an outward sign of salvation. Just as an Amishman's beard is an indication of his marriage and commitment to his wife, so baptism symbolizes our covenant with Christ.

J.E.B. Spredemann

#27. I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.

Dusty Springfield

#28. Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart.

Dusty Springfield

#29. Mother of God, it's huuuuge!" "I know." "No, seriously." "I know." "Fuck me. I think I'm about to pee myself

Kylie Scott

#30. I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.

Dusty Springfield

#31. I just decided I wanted to become someone else ... So I became someone else.

Dusty Springfield

#32. I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy.

Ed Asner

#33. My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.

Dusty Springfield

#34. The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

Dean Koontz

#35. Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life ... The "why" of life makes it meaningful ... Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.

Hu Shih