Anita Baker Quotes

I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.

Anita Baker

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• I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Life
  • Moving
  • Artist

• I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.

  

  Vanity
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Jesus

• Why do they cover Paul's songs but never mine?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Why
  • Never
  • Mine

• There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Success
  • Two
  • Commercial

• I wouldn't be here if it weren't for 'Show Boat.' The kind of theater I chose to be involved in is completely a direct reflection of what 'Show Boat' made possible.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Kind
  • Reflection
  • Boat

• This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Man
  • Lost

• It's just this huge sense of relief I have with myself right now... It took me to be 31 to go, 'Wow, I'm really happy being a model.'

  

  Karen Elson
  • Happy
  • Right
  • Sense

• I enjoy living in L.A. This is where the work is - or at least generated from - because you fly off and do movies. It's sort of a great way to see the world.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before. Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe; forward into battle see his banners go!

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • War
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• Adia I do believe I failed you.Adia I know I let you down.Don't you know I tried so hardTo love you in my way.It's easy let it go...Adia I'm empty since you left me.Trying to find a way to carry on.I search myself and everyoneTo see where we went wrong.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Search

• One winter night, at half past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Home
  • Night
  • Past

• If I hadn't an absolute faith in the harmony of creation, I wouldn't have tried for thirty years to express it in a mathematical formula. It is only man's consciousness of what he does with his mind that elevates him above the animals, and enables him to become aware of himself and his relationship to the universe.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Faith
  • Universe
  • Consciousness

• I have eight siblings, and we formed a group called Mac 9. I was Mac 7.

  

  Labrinth LSD

• The media role in highlighting racial incidents only serves to exacerbate tension. We rarely write about racial harmony.

  

  Bob Beckel

• I am happy being what I am.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Happy

• It took a generation of filmmakers who loved and were raised on comic books to make movies that you actually cared about and felt something for. I think that's absolutely the same with what's going on with videogame movies.

  

  Duncan Jones

• I love performing on stage the most. It's getting that instant reaction from a live audience. There are no boundaries, you can take your character as far as you want to, you can be the craziest person ever.

  

  Jennifer Ellison
  • Live
  • Character

• Six innings, you're doing your job. That's a good target to have, but I'm always looking to improve. There's three more innings of improvement left.

  

  Drew Pomeranz
  • Good
  • Job
  • Improvement

• To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Life
  • Past
  • Responsibility

• I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets.

  

  David Wojnarowicz
  • Simple
  • Waiting
  • Funeral

• I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.

  

  Vanna White
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Homework

• I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant... Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre.

  

  Richard Aldington
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Pieces

• I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Game
  • Weird

• I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.

  

  Anita Baker
  • Funeral