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.
DIANA ROSSMy father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn’t want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer, the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn’t want there to be any problems.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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People can take your name and write a book about you and they make money off of it. How is the public supposed to know you’re not authorizing that book? As soon as you make a big stink about it it only makes the book sell more.
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My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn’t want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer, the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn’t want there to be any problems.
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I just appreciate still having the longevity that I’ve had in my career.
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I jog and I roller-skate. I dance – that’s the best exercise.
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So every time I make a new circuit, a new time around, then I change the show. You can’t change the songs; people still want to hear “Lady Sings the Blues” and they still want to hear some of the oldies.
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With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I’m comfortable with money and it’s comfortable with me.
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If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
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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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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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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 want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.
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It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.
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I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.
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You can always tell where Diana Ross has been by the hair that’s left behind!
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I have never gotten into the label thing.
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