The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, ‘What’s so great about Billie Holiday?’
DIANA ROSSAll my gowns have trains on them. I make a train that goes on forever. I love long trains and then I stand there and twirl around and wrap myself up in it.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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I’m a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I’ve really had to decide what’s important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
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I don’t care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me.
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When I’m working I actually forget to eat. I don’t eat sweets because I don’t care about them. I have no real secrets. I just realize that as I get older I should stay strong so I exercise more.
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I don’t know what my life would have been like if I’d never gotten into show business.
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It’s easier for me to sit with the producers and the writers and I give them my feelings and my thoughts and what I think I feel like singing about and then they go away and write it.
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I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what’s going on in my life.
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My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
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I’d traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.
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Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?
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I am in prayer for his kids and the family.
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I’m not really a songwriter – I’m an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.
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I want to live in Paris for a couple of years. I’m dying to do the Josephine Baker story. I really want to be there and do it. It’s certainly my intention to do it.
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You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.
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My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don’t fight about it.
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I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
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