Quotes About Luther Vandross

#1. I can't ignore what I grew up listening to. My parents used to listen to Michael Jackson non-stop. They used to listen to Luther Vandross, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder.

Fleur East

#2. Prince didn't want to sound like Michael Jackson. Neither of them wanted to sound like Luther Vandross. They didn't want to sound like David Bowie. They were all different, but brilliant.

Warryn Campbell

#3. I'd love to a duet with Luther Vandross.

Sheena Easton

#4. Don't want to hear my favorite rapper doin' a love song. If I want to hear something soft, I'll throw on Luther Vandross.

Ice Cube

#5. The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.

Luther Vandross

#6. I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

Luther Vandross

#7. See, I'm not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the shelf. I'm sort of a rise-to-the-occasion-type of writer, so when I know I'm going to record, I get in the mood to write.

Luther Vandross

#8. When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.

Luther Vandross

#9. Superman can fly high way up in the sky
'cause we believe he can. So what we choose to believe can always work out fine ... It's all in the mind.

Luther Vandross

#10. Whenever I say goodbye its never for long because I believe in the power of love.

Luther Vandross

#11. Refreshing honesty has been getting me in trouble since I was five, but it's probably had some positive effects - like not being a liar.

William Monahan

#12. I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.

Luther Vandross

#13. How I'd love, love, love, to dance with my Father again ...

Luther Vandross

#14. My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.

Luther Vandross

#15. Your concern would have more weight with us if you were sitting
as you could be sitting
on this side of the table.

P.D. James

#16. One look in your eyes and there I see just what you mean to me. Here in my heart I believe your love is all I'll ever need

Luther Vandross

#17. As children develop, their brains "mirror" their parent's brain. In other words, the parent's own growth and development, or lack of those, impact the child's brain. As parents become more aware and emotionally healthy, their children reap the rewards and move toward health as well.

Daniel J. Siegel

#18. An old cat is a good friend to talk to.

Haruki Murakami

#19. The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.

Bono

#20. All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.

Luther Vandross