Vandross Quotes

#1. I can't ignore what I grew up listening to. My parents used to listen to Michael Jackson non-stop. They used to listen to Luther Vandross, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder.

Fleur East

#2. Prince didn't want to sound like Michael Jackson. Neither of them wanted to sound like Luther Vandross. They didn't want to sound like David Bowie. They were all different, but brilliant.

Warryn Campbell

#3. I'd love to a duet with Luther Vandross.

Sheena Easton

#4. Don't want to hear my favorite rapper doin' a love song. If I want to hear something soft, I'll throw on Luther Vandross.

Ice Cube

#5. Old age is your own creation: it can be a misery, it can be a celebration; it can be simply a despair, and it can also be a dance. It all depends how deeply ready you are to accept existence, whatsoever it brings.

Rajneesh

#6. Would you say my head was like a pumpkin, Wooster?' 'Not a bit, old man.' 'Not like a pumpkin?' 'No, not like a pumpkin. A touch of the dome of St Paul's, perhaps.

P.G. Wodehouse

#7. Superman can fly high way up in the sky
'cause we believe he can. So what we choose to believe can always work out fine ... It's all in the mind.

Luther Vandross

#8. Why should we not ... instead of the paltry offerings we make, do something that will prove that we are really in earnest in claiming to be followers of him who, though he was rich, for our sake became poor?

Lottie Moon

#9. James sighed. Seriously, who thought up silent letters? Why include a letter if it's
silent? Just to fuck with dyslexics?

S.A. Reid

#10. When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.

Luther Vandross

#11. See, I'm not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the shelf. I'm sort of a rise-to-the-occasion-type of writer, so when I know I'm going to record, I get in the mood to write.

Luther Vandross

#12. They agreed passionately out of the depths of their tormented lives.

William Golding

#13. Of x Tyre, and it shall devour

Anonymous

#14. I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

Luther Vandross

#15. There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.

C.S. Lewis

#16. The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.

Luther Vandross

#17. You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones.

Dale Earnhardt

#18. Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.

Barry Humphries

#19. Whenever I say goodbye its never for long because I believe in the power of love.

Luther Vandross

#20. I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.

Luther Vandross

#21. A great sculpture can roll down a hill without breaking.

Michelangelo

#22. My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.

Craig Finn

#23. How I'd love, love, love, to dance with my Father again ...

Luther Vandross

#24. My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.

Luther Vandross

#25. How tragic lives there are in this world! But there is a greater tragedy: People who have very hard lives often believe that they will have a better life after death! Losing hope in life and running after an absolute illusion is even a bigger tragedy!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#26. One look in your eyes and there I see just what you mean to me. Here in my heart I believe your love is all I'll ever need

Luther Vandross

#27. Devils?" he said, his mind finding its train of thought as his hand found his cigarette lighter. "Devils are superstitions. Products of small minds and even smaller imaginations. There's one word that should be banned from the dictionary - devils. Ha! Now there's a flippant word.

Jason Mott

#28. All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.

Luther Vandross

#29. Guys who know how to use a blowdryer ... Their hair is too long!

Mallory Hopkins

#30. The sun came out the next day, which it had no right to do.

Maggie Hall