Diana Ross Quotes
- All Quotes
-
People can take your name and write a book about you and they make money off of it. How is the public supposed to know you're not authorizing that book? As soon as you make a big stink about it it only makes the book sell more.
-
I don't like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own.
-
I've never been damaged or hurt by press. It's just that I think it's unfair to use your name in media.
-
The only recording studio was in Motown - it was called Tamla/Motown at that time and we used to audition there because Smokey Robinson was at that studio and Berry Gordy was the president. I remember asking Smokey to listen to my group and he did. For the first couple of years we were just singing background. We used to back up Marvin Gaye; Mary Wells was there then, Marv Johnson, the Marvelettes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Junior Walker and the All-Stars.
-
I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.
-
Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon.
-
I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money.
-
I'm from a singing family, but they're not professional singers, only gospel - my grandfather was a minister. I started to sing the music that was out then because my mother used to play it all the time. It was the end of the '50s, the beginning of the '60s. There was Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers, Etta James... We used to sit outside on the stoop and sing. We even used to put our radios and record players outside.
-
What's important for me is to give my daughters a well-rounded education and a mixture of people in their lives. They'll make their own choices. I think they would be good in show business.
-
I'm a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I've really had to decide what's important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
-
I listen to most everything that's out there because I need to stay aware of what's happening in the industry.
-
I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
-
I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing.
-
It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.
-
When I'm working I actually forget to eat. I don't eat sweets because I don't care about them. I have no real secrets. I just realize that as I get older I should stay strong so I exercise more.
-
I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
-
I don't think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.
-
All my gowns have trains on them. I make a train that goes on forever. I love long trains and then I stand there and twirl around and wrap myself up in it.
-
If I'm with a man I'm soft and buttery.
-
I lived on the north side of Detroit. Right down the street from me there was a young man by the name of Smokey Robinson. I was very proud to live down the street from him because he was our only celebrity in town. He was singing with the Miracles.
-
Discipline is a necessary tool to help you get what you want in life. It forces you to stay on center and to move away from the things that are not necessary.
-
I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.
-
My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don't fight about it.
-
Hair has always been important.