Teena Quotes

#1. Just what does a virgin wife have to do to get debauched? Teena really wanted to know. Offering herself hadn't worked. Telling her husband he would be her one and only seemed to set off a state of panic. Would she have to tie Dmitri down and have her way with him?

Eve Langlais

#2. There were musicians that influenced me, but they weren't all women. Teena Marie was a big influence because she wrote and produced her own music, which let me know that women could write and produce their own music, which was an empowering moment for me.

Queen Latifah

#3. You have to stop drawing on things!"Teena was yelling. "Paper only, okay? Not walls. Not faces. Not Mrs. Reynold's dog. Not my pants."
"I was doing the days of the week pants"
"I don't need days of the week pants!" She shouted. "And if I did I would spell Wednesday correctly!

Jojo Moyes

#4. Now this is over thirty years later and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn't. My number was up.

Joe DiMaggio

#5. OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

Teena Marie

#6. I love the stage. It's terrifying in a way that film and television is not. When you're about to go out, and you're adrenaline just gets out of control, and that can be really daunting.

Stephen Lang

#7. I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.

Teena Marie

#8. I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

Teena Marie

#9. The entire island knows our father, Fred Hemmings, Jr. - kids, adults, surfers, the governor, grocery clerks, gang members who call our house at night and threaten to kill us as soon as they get out of jail. Fred was a world-champion surfer and is now a well-known, controversial politician.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#10. Grief doesn't come in the moment of loss. It comes in the quiet of the aftermath.

William Kent Krueger

#11. I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

Teena Marie

#12. I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

Teena Marie

#13. My first album came out in 1979.

Teena Marie

#14. You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.

Yoko Ono

#15. Most photographers work best alone, myself included.

Elliott Erwitt

#16. I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.

Teena Marie

#17. I just really always try to do what's in my heart and I'm still passionate about the music; I still love what I am doing.

Teena Marie

#18. All in all, it's been a wonderful, wonderful ride. I don't plan on stopping anytime soon.

Teena Marie

#19. I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.

Teena Marie

#20. Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.

Teena Marie

#21. I have a deep affinity for New Orleans - its like a second home to me - they treat me like I'm their own.

Teena Marie

#22. The world changes and we change with it. I am better off in this world. But the world is not better. And I don't want that.

J.K. Rowling

#23. I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what.

Teena Marie

#24. In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

Christian Dior

#25. I know I have sex appeal, but I've never felt like an actual sex symbol. Fans sometimes think I am. The majority of them are sweet about it, but occasionally somebody weird becomes totally fixated upon me.

Teena Marie

#26. Somebody you busted?" Amanda asked matter-of-factly.

Jeffery Deaver

#27. You fuel your life with trust and love instead of fear and doubt.

Jon Gordon

#28. There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him.

Teena Marie

#29. I'm from California, and still live in LA.

Teena Marie

#30. 61 ULTIMATUMS Great Alamance Camp May 16th 1771 To the People now Assembled in Arms, who Style themselves Regulators In Answer to your Petition, I am to acquaint you that I have ever been attentive to the true Interest of this Country, and to that of every Individual residing

Diana Gabaldon

#31. Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

Sebastian Faulks

#32. I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels.

Teena Marie

#33. Effortless [performance] and improvisation are two different things. Just because it's improvised doesn't mean it's effortless and just because it's effortless doesn't necessarily mean it's improvised.

Christoph Waltz

#34. You never know where a blessing can come from.

Teena Marie

#35. They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.

Teena Marie

#36. Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness.

Dalai Lama

#37. I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother.

Teena Marie

#38. It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life.

Teena Marie

#39. I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A.

Teena Marie

#40. I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends.

Teena Marie

#41. Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.

W.C. Fields

#42. This is a gift. This is a gift from God. It's really like the old Biblical passage that talks about your body being a temple. That's not to say that I've never done anything but I've never abused myself. Never gone over the top for a long period of time.

Teena Marie