A Quote by Brenda Holloway

Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Brenda Holloway

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Brenda Holloway
American - Singer
Born: June 21, 1946

There are surprising turning points; there is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and you never know if your action could be the straw.

Frances Moore Lappé

I like Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle. I would love to do songs with them.

Ghostface Killah

It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

Charles Dickens

With 'Atonement,' I put a lot of pressure on myself, and then I made an advert for Chanel, which 'broke the camel's back' emotionally.

Joe Wright

Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it.

Mos Def

My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.

R. Kelly

Of all the soul divas, Gladys Knight was the one for me. Knight's always been about tone and heart, none of the big showboating or extraneous doodling. She nailed a melody and only played a little around the edges like Ma Staple.

Alison Moyet

I have mad love for the way we were taught and trained back in the day. I mean, those of us - like Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight - we didn't give into this new wave of celebrity.

Stephanie Mills

That is sort of the eternal question for people who go to Hollywood...what will be the straw that breaks the camel's back, and forces you to think about doing something else? When do you throw in the towel?

Alden Ehrenreich

Singers like Gladys Knight are mostly responsible for how I learned to sing.

Lisa Stansfield

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.

Peabo Bryson

Even before coming into the industry, I was a big fan of Motown, the Jackson 5, Gladys Knight, the Temptations, Diana Ross and The Supremes.

Stephanie Mills

But such is life, the silliest proverbs prove to be true, and when a man thinks, now it's all right, it's not all right by a longshot. Man proposes, God disposes, and there's always that last straw to break the camel's back.

Alfred Doblin

As a kid, I was big into Al Green, Gladys Knight and the Pips, but as I got older, I started listening to all sorts of music, including country.

Darius Rucker

Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.

Whitney Houston

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

William Shatner

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