Roberta Flack Quotes

United States, Singer
February 10, 1937

Roberta Cleopatra Flack is an American singer. She is known for her #1 singles "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with His Song" and "Feel Like Makin' Love", and for "Where Is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You", two of her many duets with Donny Hathaway.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

Roberta Flack
- Music
- Faith
Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

Roberta Flack
- Real
- Book
- Serious

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

Roberta Flack
- Music
- Hope
- Today
That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

Roberta Flack
- Good
- Honesty
Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.

Roberta Flack
- Remember
- Light
- Walking
As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

Roberta Flack
- People
- Important
I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.

Roberta Flack
- Lost
So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

Roberta Flack
- Opportunity
- Eyes

Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country.

Roberta Flack
- Good
- Country
- Bad
I've been overweight all my life.

Roberta Flack
- Life
I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

Roberta Flack
- Music
- Done