Whitney Houston quotes and sayings
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.
Whitney Houston quotes
- God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?
- I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.
- I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.
- I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.
- I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.
- No one makes me do anything I don't want to do.
- I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.
- Being around people like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick and Roberta Flack, all these greats, I was taught to listen and observe.
- I'm good where I am at this moment.
- When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.