Growing around great musicians, you just can’t help it. I identified with it immediately. It was something that was so natural to me that when I started singing, it was almost like speaking.
WHITNEY HOUSTONI’m not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn’t do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don’t have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.
More Whitney Houston Quotes
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I’d rather be alone than unhappy
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I’ve turned down a lot of arena dates because I’ve done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.
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I’m the kind of person, if, if I have a day that is nerve-wracking, or my week has been bad or something’s going down, I won’t eat. Some people eat, I don’t eat. And it shows in my physical frame.
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In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.
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You get that love from the people. It lets me know that all the madness I go through, all the stuff that the business has to offer with all its madness; it makes it worthwhile.
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I’ve got some good saints out there – that’s right – that pray for me constantly. You’ve gotta have that! You do.
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I’m just fiercely protective. It’s like, that’s my lair and nobody messes with my lair.
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I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.
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You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can’t fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you’ve got to be straight up with you.
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What’s in your soul is in your soul.
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Learning to love yourself, is the greatest love all.
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When you’re feeling full of doubt and fear has got you in a bind, love will save the day.
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My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don’t fight it.
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No one makes me do anything I don’t want to do.
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I’ve always been a thin girl. I’m not going to be fat, ever. Let’s get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay?
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