Top 37 Quotes About Sarah Vaughan: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Sarah Vaughan

#1. I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.

Dionne Warwick

#2. I was a 12 year old kid in Northern Idaho listening to Billie Holiday and Lena Horne and Sarah Vaughan and Nat King Cole. This whole genre of music is a part of who I am.

Cheyenne Jackson

#3. The singer who really opened the door for me was Sarah Vaughan. But I listen to so much music, especially when I was growing up. My parents loved jazz music, so on Saturday [laughing] it would be the "Longine's Symphonettes," and on Sunday it was Mahalia Jackson.

Dianne Reeves

#4. Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

Aaron Neville

#5. Sarah Vaughan is one of my greatest heroes. She personifies what an artist is all about, taking risks, daring to go beyond the boundaries of safety and convention. It takes courage to share your vulnerability.

Claron McFadden

#6. Quincy Jones' autobiography 'Q' is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers, and its good for him to have a book and tell the good ole days when he was with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles.

Ice Cube

#7. Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s.

Roy Haynes

#8. Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.

John Flavel

#9. Good morning, Sunshine.

Katja Millay

#10. I just get onstage and sing. I don't think about how I'm going to do it - it's too complicated.

Sarah Vaughan

#11. When I sing a tune, the lyrics are important to me. Most of the standard lyrics I know well. And as soon as I hear an arrangement, I get ideas, kind of like blowing a horn. I guess I never sing a tune the same way twice.

Sarah Vaughan

#12. I just quit in the third year of high school and started singing at amateur hours.

Sarah Vaughan

#13. What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun.

Sarah Vaughan

#14. You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

Mary Schmich

#15. There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.

Sarah Vaughan

#16. My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

Sarah Vaughan

#17. Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!

Lord Byron

#18. President Obama attacks success and therefore under President Obama we have less success and I will change that.

Mitt Romney

#19. Mrs. Whittaker's dress was always studiously suited to its occasion; thus, her bearing had always that calm that only the correctly attired may enjoy.

Dorothy Parker

#20. Horns always influenced me more than voices.

Sarah Vaughan

#21. I don't feel like a big star.

Sarah Vaughan

#22. There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.

Howard Thurman

#23. You are a:
Woman seeking man

Regrettably, "Woman seeking man who's not a lying asshole" wasn't an option.

Amy Webb

#24. They always ask me the same questions. Where was I born? When did I start singing? Who have I worked with? I don't understand why they can't just talk to me without all that question bit.

Sarah Vaughan

#25. There are notes between notes, you know.

Sarah Vaughan

#26. The baby should always be saved in preference to the mother. That is the advice of the Holy Church, you know that. I was only reminding women of their duty. There is no need to make everything so personal, Margaret. You make everything into your own tragedy.

Philippa Gregory

#27. One is always punished out of season.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#28. Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.

Sarah Vaughan

#29. I'm not heart-broken if I don't have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit.

Sarah Vaughan

#30. Oh, listen a lot and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking.

Bing Crosby

#31. You have to have a little soul in your singing. The kind of soul that's in the spirituals. That's why I'd like to include spiritual material in the sets I do. It's a part of my life.

Sarah Vaughan