Braxton Quotes & Sayings

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do. — Toni Braxton

I will fight for Braxton Kennedy. Even if it means fighting against him to have him. I'll make him mine. — K. Webster

I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world. — Anthony Braxton

For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity - or even western creativity - but this assumption was seriously in error. — Anthony Braxton

You cannot powder away what botox can fix. My name is Tamar, and I am for plastic surgery. — Tamar Braxton

The smallest smile finally graced his face as he handed me a paper plate. Nestled in the center was a slice of lemon cake. I stared at it for a moment before a tear escaped the corner of my eye. Braxton laughed .
"You are still the only supe I know to cry about cake." I sucked down my sob .
"There are very few things in this world which can move me to tears." I hugged the plate close to my chest.
"This is just beautiful."

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I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions. — Anthony Braxton

I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill. — Toni Braxton

I've always been able to do sprinkles of hip-hop here and there in all my albums, but I'm not sure how my fans are gonna feel about coming out first with something that's so hip-hop. — Toni Braxton

I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs. — Toni Braxton

At spare moments in the day, make it a point to contemplate the loss of whatever you value in life. It can make you realize, if only for a time, how lucky you are - how much you have to be thankful for, almost regardless of your circumstances ... — William Braxton Irvine

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy. — Toni Braxton

You lose the arrogance you need to be successful, but you need that arrogance because the second someone sees that side of you and chip at it, it's over. — Toni Braxton

I love 'Braxton Family Values!' I love seeing a strong family unit striving for success while dealing with everyday struggles like everyone else. Whatever drama they find themselves in, they find a way to solve it and get back to the importance of family. A positive show for sure. — Drew Sidora

My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex. — Anthony Braxton

My ideal kinda guy, if I was really gonna go there even though he's married, is Mark Wahlberg. To me he's a little black and white, the kinda guy who would understand if I pull my weave out. — Toni Braxton

Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit. — Anthony Braxton

And when it comes to gettin nookie, I'm not a rookie ...
I got girls that make that chick Toni Braxton look like Whoopi. — Big L

A lot of people don't get second chances. — Tamar Braxton

There are mornings on this road trip as the early light gathers itself, something quite unexpected happens. My camera pushes me aside and takes on a life of it's own, conspiring with nature and becoming a veritable paintbrush. I'd like to take credit for the end result, but I know it would be a lie. — Stephen Braxton Thompson

Everything is real on me. — Tamar Braxton

When it comes to desiring, we are all experts. If there were an Olympics of desiring, we would all make the team. — William Braxton Irvine

When I first go out on stage, there are tummy bubbles everywhere. — Toni Braxton

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire. — Toni Braxton

If you want to blow up hang around me because all of my friends we would hang out and next thing I know they are major worldwide superstars. — Tamar Braxton

There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks! — Tamar Braxton

And i can't get you out of my mind, God knows how hard I've tried. — Toni Braxton

I take an active role in my imaging and how I look. — Toni Braxton

If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it's the same for your heart. — Toni Braxton

I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever worked for me was me being me, so either you love it or not. — Tamar Braxton

Only God should be in the driver's seat. — Braxton A. Cosby

They're basically trick contractions. They make you think you're going to finally exorcise the demon from your belly, but they're just a constant false alarm. — Lauren Blakely

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same. — Toni Braxton

Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration? — Anthony Braxton

The only person that can give up on you is yourself. People will always say no but you gotta keep trying. As long as you are above the ground there's opportunity. Utilize your time and be serious about your craft. Don't forget to PRACTICE! Be serious about your goals. Understand you have to be talented. Don't seek the impossible be realistic! — Tamar Braxton

To do what you love can sometimes be stressful. — Toni Braxton

Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it. — Toni Braxton

I can imagine you touching my private parts. With just the thought of you I can't help, but touch myself. — Toni Braxton

There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of a living tradition of belief and dedication. Future historians will be surprised at the breadth of Mr. Fonda's offerings. This is a real virtuoso and composer of the highest order. — Anthony Braxton

By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be the last time we do it, and this recognition can invest the things we do with a significance and intensity that would otherwise be absent. We will no longer sleepwalk through our life. — William Braxton Irvine

Nobody paved the way for me, Jesus paved the way for me, — Tamar Braxton

I love my family, I'll do anything for them. — Toni Braxton

I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms', all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected. — Anthony Braxton

Jimi on the box, thirty stories up, everything immediate, yet distanced. Jimi's chords locked in aerial dogfights, gliding, riding, sliding, hiding, belligerent bursts, hallucinogenic, a head-warping face-wiping mind melt, chords live dive bombers screaming in for the kill, scintillating, serrated chords shot through with arc-light shrieks of staccato mayhem, as immediate and horrific as the firefight racketing away this very second below our red and puffy eyes; chords that hang in the air like the retinal reflection of an eerie afterburn, the stars displaced and the smell of a world that burned. Overhead, night birds flying, Huey, Apache, Chinook, whooshing with murderous potential. And over everything - every apocalyptic bang, boom, and rattle - Jimi, bleating like Braxton and bonding with the bombast. — Roger Steffens

I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life. — Toni Braxton

Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to meet her lover and later deciding to have children, and the old woman, hunched over her walker, moving down the hall of the nursing home at a glacial pace to pick up her mail. Banish desire from the world, and you get a world of frozen beings who have no reason to live and no reason to die. — William Braxton Irvine

I haven't always been vocal about my feelings, especially in a relationship. — Tamar Braxton

Evolution is the phenomenon of change and the challenge of the next time cycle will involve the creation of constructs that will provide the kind of dynamic knowledge base that can assist the challenges of tomorrow (involving both fundamental and extended information). — Anthony Braxton

When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that. — Toni Braxton

Broadway, I have to memorize everything. You get one time to do it right. — Toni Braxton

I may be the baby of the family, but that doesn't mean I don't get to boss people around. — Tamar Braxton

Growing up in the '50s and being in the '60s, in that revolutionary time space, I thought freedom was what I was looking for. Slowly but surely, it became clear that the last thing I was interested in was freedom. Because if you're going to be free, you have to be free from something. — Anthony Braxton

Sometimes I identify myself as 25 and I dare someone to tell me different! — Tamar Braxton

I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter. — Toni Braxton

Pain is the only reward for clinging to impossible dreams. (Harry Braxton) — Connie Brockway

You are currently experiencing desire; otherwise, you wouldn't be reading these words. Even if you are reading them at the behest of someone else, you are motivated by your desire to please that person. And if you stop reading, you will not do so because you have stopped desiring but because your desires have changed. — William Braxton Irvine

I have learned through time that not everyone is interested in the kinds of things that fascinate me. — Anthony Braxton

There's power in your purpose!" -Joe Braxton — Joe Braxton

I can live a totally normal life and do everything I want to do just as long as I take my medication. My body will give me signals if it gets weak or fatigued, so I know when I need to take a break. — Toni Braxton

It's actually very beautiful when you can't conceive on your own, you can actually go to the doctors and with science you can create a child. — Tamar Braxton

They locked him in the stockade for four days. No other prisoners occupied the other cells that ran the length of the room. He was alone, and that was fine with him. He needed to think, and that was best done in a place where he wouldn't see Ginesse Braxton - Ginesse, not Mildred - because she did things to his thought processes, such as dammed them up completely.
She acted and he reacted: viscerally, irrepressibly, and ruinously.
She fell in the water; he dove in after her. She laughed; he smiled. She mentioned the beauty of the sunset; he saw colors in it he hadn't ever noticed. She peeked at him from under her gold-tipped lashes; he grew hard as Damascus steel. Pomfrey said something derogatory; he wanted to kill the sonofabitch with his bare hands.
Things like that. — Connie Brockway

I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose. — Tamar Braxton

I do wear weaves and I do wear wigs. — Tamar Braxton

The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation. — Anthony Braxton

There are problems with the single already. I don't want to put out the first single, Hit the Freeway. — Toni Braxton

Everybody in America is angry about something. — Anthony Braxton

Beauty is everything and beauty is within, however, if you don't feel good on the outside, then you will not look good. — Tamar Braxton

He groaned in mounting desire. "You're a dangerous woman, Calinda Braxton," he murmured hoarsely. "So are you, Lynx Cardone," she replied in a strained voice as she pushed away from him, fighting to regain control of herself. He caught her face between his hands, drilling his smoldering gaze into her matching one. "I want you, Cal," he stated simply.

-Lynx & Calinda — Janelle Taylor

I am not Captain Save-A-Ho; I can only save one at a time, and that's me! — Tamar Braxton

Braxton Cosby's stories feel personal and well thought-out. I'm happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I look forward to more of his work! — Tananarive Due

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White. — Toni Braxton

I let everybody else's negative energy feed on me a little. — Toni Braxton

When I watched American Idol, I always thought Simon was the most realistic. Simon's like, It was absolutely horrid. That's what they tell in the music industry. — Toni Braxton

I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am. — Tamar Braxton

Welcome to the new and improved 'I don't give a fuck' Braxton." "It's — Jaymin Eve

I was so unsuccessful for so long. I was used to the word no. I was used to you're not good enough or not quite there or you need to fix this about you. So I am honestly walking in faith every single day that I am going to be able to handle whatever God has for me. I am not used to being in a place where people appreciate my work and understand my work and want to be a part of my work and getting something out of my work because for so long it was so misunderstood. The success part for me is the hardest part and everyday I'm still battling. — Tamar Braxton

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog. — Toni Braxton

All I want is moonlight, with you there inside of me, all night, doing it again and again. You know I want you so bad. — Toni Braxton

You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you. — Toni Braxton

I'm seeking to have an art that is engaged as a way for saying, 'Hurray for unity.' — Anthony Braxton

I'm in love with you," he said again. "You're forever, Sunshine."

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"I'm in love with you, too, Braxton Jenkins." Tears filled my eyes. "Forever won't be nearly long enough."

"Sweetheart," he said, his eyes holding mine. "Forever is for fuckin' sissies. Pardon my French, but let's go for eternity, yeah? — Cindy Miles

I learned that I had to believe in myself and not just to be comfortable with the opinions of others. I'm just more in control; I finalize everything. — Toni Braxton

Some people say I'm kinda country, but I like to take risks on fashion. I kinda go left sometimes, so you can get a taste of my personality. — Toni Braxton

You can never go back to the first two albums in a career. — Toni Braxton

I'm not bleaching my skin, and if I was bleaching my skin and I felt like saying so, I would, but for the record, I am not. — Tamar Braxton

Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again. — Toni Braxton

Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age. — Toni Braxton

But this attitude could not persist. Under the supervision of "oldtimers" like Joseph Johnston, Robert E. Lee, Braxton Bragg, and Thomas Jackson, complaisant officers were gradually weeded out and West Point ideas of discipline were adopted in the Southern armies. Before the campaigns of 1862 Johnny Reb was for the most part a changed man. He had shed most of his surplus equipment, and, of much greater importance, he had abandoned the idea that military life was "all fun and frolic." In short, the volunteer had become a soldier. — Bell Irvin Wiley

I don't think a baby will change my career because I don't plan to go about my career any differently. I'm gonna work hard because I love to work, and I love what I do. I think a baby will just add more happiness to it. — Tamar Braxton

I think I die a little every time I look at you."
Lenna's key slid from her hand and dropped to the floor at their feet.
Braxton looked down at it for a second and then lifted his eyes. "The first time," he went on, "at the Christmas party, when I looked up and saw you in the doorway ... " He paused and sucked in a breath as if he were reliving that very moment all over again. "I couldn't breathe. I haven't been able to breathe right since then. — Linda Kage

You can find love when you are famous if you are the same person you were before you were famous. — Tamar Braxton

I've always been a person who's been true to myself and true to others, and I'm not afraid to be honest. — Tamar Braxton

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me. — Anthony Braxton

Kara Braxton, she's a great player, so I think they can go far this year. — Kelly Miller

I was so glad I did Beauty and the Beast. I always wanted to act, and if the bankruptcy thing hadn't happened, I wouldn't have started acting. — Toni Braxton

If anyone did any harm to my children, I don't know what I would do. — Toni Braxton

I'm a post-Abner Jay kind of guy mixed with Roger Corman and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. — Anthony Braxton

Cause you mean the world to me, you are my everything;
I swear the only thing that matters, matters to me ... — Toni Braxton

And i can't get you out of my head,
how in the world will i begin
to let you walk right out my life
and blow my heart away? — Toni Braxton

I look at other artists who have had fabulous first albums, and you don't know what they're doing today. Who's to say I'll be an exception to that rule? — Toni Braxton