Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Roberta Flack

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Roberta Flack.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Roberta Cleopatra Flack is an American singer. She is known for her No. 1 singles "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", "Killing Me Softly with His Song", "Feel Like Makin' Love"; and "Where Is the Love" and "The Closer I Get to You", two of her many duets with Donny Hathaway. Flack is also noted for her influence on the subgenre of contemporary R&B called quiet storm, along with her interpretations of songs by various songwriters, such as Leonard Cohen and members of The Beatles.

American - Musician | Born: February 10, 1937

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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.

Roberta Flack

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

Roberta Flack

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

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

Roberta Flack

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

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

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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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

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

Roberta Flack

I've been overweight all my life.

Roberta Flack

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.

Roberta Flack

There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.

Roberta Flack

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.

Roberta Flack

Tonight, we will both discover, how friends turn into lovers, when I make love to you.

Roberta Flack

Walking in the dark, seeing lovers do their thing. That's the time, I feel like making love to you.

Roberta Flack

A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes.

Roberta Flack

The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes

Roberta Flack

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

Roberta Flack

Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.

Roberta Flack

Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.

Roberta Flack

Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Roberta Flack

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