Peabo Bryson Quotes (28 Quotes)

To have achieved something that represents music that is played long after my bones are dust, I don't look at it as an epitaph, although it could be.

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.

Being at Windham Hill now has made me more appreciative of the people who still believe in the things that I believe in, that are a part of me.

Because there's so many intangibles about art. It's so personal in terms of whether it is good or bad. Or you like it or you don't like it.

She and Celine Dion are my two favorite people in the entire world. I feel similar ways about Celine. I love her energy. I love being around her.

It doesn't mean that I won't be sexy or hip or anything like that.

If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

I'm not angry at anyone.

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.

In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.

But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.

If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.

I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.

Trends don't mean very much.

I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

I think you create your own hipness.

I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.

There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.

I'd like to think my music - especially Unconditional Love, is a representation of the philosophies and ideologies I want to share with you.

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.