Roberta Flack Quotes

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

Peabo Bryson

#2. I have a couple of all-time favorites: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.

Lauryn Hill

#3. Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.

Whitney Houston

#4. My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

Roberta Flack

#5. The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar.

Chris Hedges

#6. Walking in the dark, seeing lovers do their thing. That's the time, I feel like making love to you.

Roberta Flack

#7. Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

Roberta Flack

#8. Starstruck with one buck, your girl look like Donald Duck.

Kool Keith

#9. Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country.

Roberta Flack

#10. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole.

Herman Melville

#11. I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

Roberta Flack

#12. I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#13. Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

Roberta Flack

#14. The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes

Roberta Flack

#15. Developing a program that will serve you a lifetime is not an instant fix. Attitude shifts take much longer, but when they take, they tend to take for good.

Mireille Guiliano

#16. Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.

Roberta Flack

#17. Tonight, we will both discover, how friends turn into lovers, when I make love to you.

Roberta Flack

#18. All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy.

Kristen Bell

#19. Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic.

Robert Rodriguez

#20. There had been plenty of singers whose high notes could smash a glass but Nanny's high C could clean it.

Terry Pratchett

#21. A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes ...

Roberta Flack

#22. Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.

Roberta Flack

#23. I've been overweight all my life.

Roberta Flack

#24. So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

Roberta Flack

#25. There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.

Roberta Flack

#26. As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

Roberta Flack

#27. A headline last year, after the death of Saddam Hussein, read: 'Tyrant is hanged'. My auntie looked at the newspaper and sobbed, 'Who's going to present "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?"'

Steve Williams

#28. That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

Roberta Flack

#29. It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.

Niels Bohr

#30. Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling porcupine," she crooned. "Little critters fried like fritters come out crunchy and divine.

Gregory Maguire

#31. Whatever is of consequence in life, is always hidden from view. What is manifest is the outer cover; what remains unmanifest is the soul within.

Osho

#32. Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more. Now she felt like a child, every day on the brink of a new discovery.

Margaret Mitchell

#33. I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.

Roberta Flack

#34. Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.

Roberta Flack

#35. Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.

Roberta Flack

#36. Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

Roberta Flack