Toni Tennille Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Toni Tennille

#4. 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

#5. Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!

Will Wright

#6. Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.

Tim McCarver

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

Toni Tennille

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

Toni Tennille

#9. Life is crazy and meaningful at once.

Carl Jung

#10. I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

Jeff Lindsay

#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. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Toni Tennille

#16. A woman who would make his dreams hers and allow him to be part of hers. One who was kind and gentle. Loving and tender. Sensible.

Debbie Macomber

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

Toni Tennille

#18. I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.

Laura Linney

#19. If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.

Maria Semple

#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 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

#23. People says you are not going to take anything with you at the end but people, mind that you are going to leave a lot behind you.So be precise for your deeds n trail you left.

Nikunj Shukla

#24. I get to do all these really nice, little culty things. It seems to be the world that keeps inviting me back.

Lucy Lawless

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

Toni Tennille

#27. If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

Katharine Graham

#28. There are two things that cannot be achieved in life unless you close your eyes a little bit. And that's love and peace. If you want perfection you won't obtain either of them.

Shimon Peres