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I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.

Barbra Streisand

My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
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Awards Mean Together
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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Given Self Self Esteem
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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Art Cold Dark Heat Light Place
I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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Color Falling House Love
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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Head Men World
I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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Legends Progress Work
They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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Angel Heaven Review
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
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Judging Lag Umpires
I’m a work in progress.
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Done Process Progress Work
I still like my antique clothes.
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Antiques Clothes Stills
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Performing Process
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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Art Generation Signature
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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Funny Inspirational Success
When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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Father Girl Good Kid Neighbourhood Stood
It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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Appreciate Done Years
You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
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Different Jobs Men

I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.

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