Odetta Quotes & Sayings

If your neighbor looks at you like they don't enjoy the key you're singing in, look right back, bless them, and keep on singing. — Odetta

No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim. — Odetta

The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it. — Odetta

You're walking down life's road, society's foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can't get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life. — Odetta

The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall. — Odetta