Tennille Quotes

#1. The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.

Joey Ramone

#2. There was a period after my first solo album came out that about 50 per cent of my work was with symphonies and big bands. We did the Captain and Tennille as well, but it ended up being about 50-50.

Toni Tennille

#3. Actually, the year 2000 is our 25th anniversary of doing Captain & Tennille. I can't believe it. It's like, how is this possible?

Toni Tennille

#4. The Stones can get out there and do it till they're old men. But certain groups are sad-looking to me.

Toni Tennille

#5. I'm not going to be rockin' n' rollin' when I'm 50 years old. But you can be in your prime on television, compose songs, or write a Broadway play when you're 50.

Toni Tennille

#6. That's what happens when you're responsible for lives other than your own, isn't it? You do what you have to do.

Sarah J. Maas

#7. In 1969, I wrote a musical called 'Mother Earth.' It was a rock musical with an ecology theme. We did it at the South Coast Repertory Theatre in Southern California where I was a member. It was a smash hit in this small theater.

Toni Tennille

#8. My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn't make me any more graceful - they just helped keep me from bumping into the furniture on stage.

Toni Tennille

#9. My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with Bob Crosby's band - but he had to give up show business when his father died. He had to come back to Montgomery and take over the furniture store.

Toni Tennille

#10. Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you?

Eowyn Ivey

#11. Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more than just the one facet that television played on.

Toni Tennille

#12. Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring.

Robert Breault

#13. I was uncomfortable with that kind of fame when you're in the tabloids every day.

Toni Tennille

#14. Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.

Casey Neistat

#15. I'm the 'Muskrat Love' girl.

Toni Tennille

#16. A man who is influenced by the polls or is afraid to make decisions which make him unpopular is not a man to represent the welfare of the country.

Harry S. Truman

#17. I just don't read reviews, because it can really hurt you.

Toni Tennille

#18. The sun does not abandon the moon to darkness.

Brian A. McBride

#19. The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action.

Tracy Letts

#20. My heart is with the standards. That's what I was raised on. I'm perfectly comfortable with pop. I feel lucky because I'm pretty versatile.

Toni Tennille

#21. In 1972 through '74, right before we hit it big, we were hauling our own equipment into the club and setting up and playing for, I don't know, a hundred bucks a night.

Toni Tennille

#22. It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.

Albert Schweitzer

#23. it always bothered me to know that the right to have a cool drink of water on a hot Alabama day could depend simply on the color of a person's skin.

Toni Tennille

#24. The truth is the justice system does need review, there are troubling questions that need to be answered, law enforcement needs to respect the community and the community needs to respect law enforcement.

Mario Cuomo

#25. Once you've established yourself with hits that become part of people's lives, then they pretty much always want to see you.

Toni Tennille

#26. The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.

Timothy Keller

#27. The biggest surprise to people is that I sang background on Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' album.

Toni Tennille

#28. It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.

Alison Elliott

#29. There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.

Lorenzo Snow

#30. I don't think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life.

Billie Holiday

#31. Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

Stephen Baldwin

#32. I am just the most boring person you will ever meet. I'm the good Southern daughter. I'm not outrageous.

Toni Tennille