Peabo Quotes & Sayings

There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned. — Peabo Bryson

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure the comfort. — Humphy Davy

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point. — Peabo Bryson

If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do. — Peabo Bryson

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music. — Peabo Bryson

I think you create your own hipness. — Peabo Bryson

In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again. — Peabo Bryson

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it. — Lucinda Williams

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts. — Peabo Bryson

I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so. — Peabo Bryson

I love candlelit dinners. — Matthew Morrison

If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music. — Peabo Bryson

I'm not angry at anyone. — Peabo Bryson

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever. — Peabo Bryson

It doesn't mean that I won't be sexy or hip or anything like that. — Peabo Bryson

I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done. — Peabo Bryson

If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing. — Peabo Bryson

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was. — Peabo Bryson

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small. — Peabo Bryson

I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing. — Peabo Bryson

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it. — Peabo Bryson

She had expressed herself, as women will, in a smug broadside of pastel shades. Nothing clashed because nothing had the strength to clash; everything murmured of safety among the hues; all was refinement. — Mervyn Peake

I don't know where I will be when you read this, but if I can, I will find you and whisper in your ear. The first thing I will whisper is this: Never give up. Goodness will always outrun evil in the end. — Anne Fortier

For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality. — Peabo Bryson

I have to choose songs that represent my personality. — Peabo Bryson

But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep. — Peabo Bryson

Trends don't mean very much. — Peabo Bryson

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody. — Peabo Bryson

[The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful. — Morley Safer