Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Roberta Flack.
Last updated on November 17, 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.
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.
That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.
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.
Our criteria for deciding what's good and what's bad is very fickle, especially in this country.
As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.
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.
Remember: Always walk in the light. And if you feel like you're not walking in it, go find it. Love the light.
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.
So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.
I've been overweight all my life.
I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.
There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.
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.
Tonight, we will both discover, how friends turn into lovers, when I make love to you.
Walking in the dark, seeing lovers do their thing. That's the time, I feel like making love to you.
A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes.
The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes
Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.
Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.
Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.