Cyndi Lauper Quotes (20 Quotes)


    I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.

    People used to complain to me all the time, 'I can't even hear you sing because your clothes are so loud.'

    When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead.

    Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

    I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.


    Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles.

    Yes. It's all his fault. I was nice, very pure, never did anything wrong, and then he started in and started corrupting me.

    I'm in the business where you get the business all the time.

    I used to get spanked. Yeah, my mother used to line us up and we'd get it with the belt. I think she was into music, cause we were all different sizes like a xylophone. But I've been through therapy, I'm OK now.


    I am also an Emmy winning actress. Except that I gotta tell ya, it was for comedy and I've been practicing for most of my life because every job I've ever had they'd always say the same thing, 'Hey Lauper, what are ya, some kind of comedienne' and who knew

    What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

    Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.

    God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.

    As the audiences got larger, the participation got larger. And I found myself in Dallas, and 20,000 people were singing 'Madonna Whore' back at me. I thought... this is really a great thing. They wanted to hear it really badly, and here they are.

    When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.

    OK, let's really talk about Jenny. People who can fight, can --.

    I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head.

    My partner and I, we were talking about Christmas. And it's a holiday of the heart, and you know, like we listened to 'Silent Night' and 'In the Bleak Midwinter,' and that to me was like a lullaby, ... And after all, this holiday's about a baby. So I wanted to put a human face on this, and I said, 'Well, what would you say if you were singing to your baby, telling your baby about Christmas What would you say' And so I came up with this song.

    You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.


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