Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Canadian musician Celine Dion.
Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Céline Marie Claudette Dion is a Canadian singer. Noted for her powerful and technically skilled vocals, Dion is the best-selling Canadian recording artist, and the best-selling French language artist of all time. Her music has incorporated genres such as pop, rock, R&B, gospel, and classical music.
I have become a housewife and there is no better job.
The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.
I don't listen to my own music at home.
I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.
On her son Rene: Oh my God, when he's 20 years old what's going to happen to me? I'm gonna marry him.
I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.
Never say that your life is to be a singer. You want to sing because it's a part of your life. But if you don't succeed as a singer, it doesn't mean you don't have a life and it's over.
I'll be a Quebecker-Canadian. I'm from Quebec, and every time I go to a country, I say that. It's my roots, my origins, and it's the most important thing to me.
I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.
My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe.
I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business.
My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I'm not holding onto a dream. I'm holding onto my life.
I love beautiful things. I'm not into art so much, like paintings.
Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.
I definitely would never go back to my 20s. The best is yet to come.
I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.
The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially, the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate.
I've never been cool - and I don't care.
I love pencil skirts, but I'm always looking for a top. And then I'm afraid, by myself, to match, to try colors. When I wear a dress, I know the top matches the bottom. So I can't make a mistake.
I worked really hard, and I surpassed myself... I didn't have, visually, what it took. I was not pretty, I had teeth problems, and I was very skinny. I didn't fit the mold.
I'm not going to be Rihanna. No one can be Rihanna except for Rihanna.
When I hear something that comes from me that makes me fall down off my chair, it's not often.
I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life.
In terms of music, I can try anything I want, even something that doesn't work at all, because I'm not putting my career in jeopardy.
It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.
It's really all about family, love and the children for me. I work at that every day.
I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.
There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.
I have a wonderful husband. I have three amazing kids.
I think it bothers people to see people that are happy and successful. So they try to find what's wrong with them.
I gave life, and that is beautiful.
When you're a parent, you sing better. It becomes a pure pleasure, rather than something I have to do.
At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.
I have to say that when you tour the world, obviously, the jetlags and different hours and ways of living and traveling, a lot of hours in the plane, and you wake up in the morning and you're not quite sure where you are, and it is very tiring.
There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.
Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.
I'm passionate about my fans and my shows. But my biggest reward in the success that is my life are my husband and kids.
Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.
I'm not looking for career attention, for more success, more money. I'm just singing songs I chose because I love them.
My kids give me the balance to live right.
I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.
I don't just sing for free. It's my work. You're paid for what you do. And I work hard.
I don't know if the camera likes me, but I do like the camera.
When you're home, I don't listen to my own music at home.
The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother.
I hope, what I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother is the most difficult I will ever have to do.
Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.
I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.
I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family.
I'm very comfortable in my skin.
I only record songs that touch me in some way, ones that I can relate to.
The craziest thing I've done is cut my hair blonde and short a couple of years ago. And people reached out to me saying, 'Celine, you're one of the most stable things we have in our lives, don't do that. We want you the way you are.'
I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.
I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.
I didn't have any of those good assets to have successful teenage years. It was hard. And what saved me was definitely my whole family. I knew where I was coming from and where I was going to.
I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.
I wasn't good at school.
Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.
When you are surrounded by children, the child in you comes back.
Life imposes things on you that you can't control, but you still have the choice of how you're going to live through this.