Roberta Flack quotes:
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Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country.
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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.
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Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.
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Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.
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That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.
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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.
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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.
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So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.
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Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.
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I've been overweight all my life.
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Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.
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Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.
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There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.
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Tonight, we will both discover, how friends turn into lovers, when I make love to you.
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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.
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I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.
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A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes ...
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As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.
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The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes
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Walking in the dark, seeing lovers do their thing. That's the time, I feel like making love to you.