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.
DIANA ROSSSo I’m not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I’m happy that I have them; I think it’s good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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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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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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I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.
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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 have a lust for life.
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They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.
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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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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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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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Being a parent is very important to me.
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I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don’t want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I’m not afraid to talk money.
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You can have a lot of New York and still see what’s going on in the rest of the world, I think – like in China.
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My life has often been described as ‘from rags to riches’ but in fact, the Ross’s were never raggedy.
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I listen to most everything that’s out there because I need to stay aware of what’s happening in the industry.
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Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don’t hold on to that.
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