I’m far from perfect. I’m still learning. I overworked myself, and I paid the price. I consider the breakdown a breakthrough. I needed to hit rock bottom. I needed to understand the cost of pushing so hard; fighting so hard against the system.
MARIAH CAREYThe best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that get people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.
More Mariah Carey Quotes
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I don’t think anyone knows as much about what’s right for me as I do.
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One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.
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If you just believe in me. I will love you endlessly.
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I really rebel against authority.
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Stay triumphant, keep on living. Stay on your toes, get off the ropes. Don’t let ’em ever count you out.
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If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you’re gonna make it happen.
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I definitely feel more complete than before. There’s a void you have when you don’t feel you’ve found the other part of who you are, so I’m in a different place now and that’s nice to experience.
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Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
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I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn’t believe the poems I’d bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.
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There’s a hero, If you look inside your heart.
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Never listen to anybody who try to discourage you.
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I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever’s on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.
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There is a light at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully its not a freight train!
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I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.
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I hope to be around past the 90’s. I don’t want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.
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