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Teena Quotes By Queen Latifah

There were musicians that influenced me, but they weren't all women. Teena Marie was a big influence because she wrote and produced her own music, which let me know that women could write and produce their own music, which was an empowering moment for me. — Queen Latifah

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do? — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

I just really always try to do what's in my heart and I'm still passionate about the music; I still love what I am doing. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

I always try to be a trend setter. That's what I always tell young people when I'm giving them advice. To go with their heart and don't follow the trends. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

I think that's the problem in a lot of music. We've got these record labels. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

I have a different mentality when it comes to catering to a man, I just won't allow it. Don't get me wrong, I'll do for you but I'm not taking care of no man and catering to him for life; he better be bringing something to the table. I learned that from my mother and my grandmother. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

I know I have sex appeal, but I've never felt like an actual sex symbol. Fans sometimes think I am. The majority of them are sweet about it, but occasionally somebody weird becomes totally fixated upon me. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

This is a gift. This is a gift from God. It's really like the old Biblical passage that talks about your body being a temple. That's not to say that I've never done anything but I've never abused myself. Never gone over the top for a long period of time. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

I have a deep affinity for New Orleans - its like a second home to me - they treat me like I'm their own. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

You never know where a blessing can come from. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

I write in all keys. I've always written in all keys. I've probably written a lot of songs in A. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By King Louie

Several people inspired me like Lil' Wayne, Juvenile, the whole Cash Money camp, the No Limit camp, DMX, Jay-Z, Eminem, LL Cool J, I listened to all type of sh*t. I listened to R&B like Teena Marie, just good music - anybody that made good music. When I was growing up out west I listened to Twista, Do or Die, and Crucial Conflict. They were the "it" artists in Chicago. I wanted to be like them on TV and all of that so that's how it all started. — King Louie

Teena Quotes By Sandra Proto

I have so many creative ideas pulsating in my brain that I don't know which one to start with. I have old projects that I began ten years ago haunting me. I have new ones whispering between the current projects. My brain is on overdrive and I don't know how to stop it. OHM!...OHM!...OHM! Yes, I need to look up to the higher power and listen for His guidance. He is the only one that can put me in the right direction. In the meantime, like Teena Maria says, "I've got to keep my irons in the fire. — Sandra Proto

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Jojo Moyes

You have to stop drawing on things!"Teena was yelling. "Paper only, okay? Not walls. Not faces. Not Mrs. Reynold's dog. Not my pants."
"I was doing the days of the week pants"
"I don't need days of the week pants!" She shouted. "And if I did I would spell Wednesday correctly! — Jojo Moyes

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Eve Langlais

Just what does a virgin wife have to do to get debauched? Teena really wanted to know. Offering herself hadn't worked. Telling her husband he would be her one and only seemed to set off a state of panic. Would she have to tie Dmitri down and have her way with him? — Eve Langlais

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

All in all, it's been a wonderful, wonderful ride. I don't plan on stopping anytime soon. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Lidia Yuknavitch

That's about when it happens. Coming down the escalator from one Nord floor to the next we see Little Teena has commandeered the grand piano. He's busy busting out Bach to all the bewildered shoppers. Little Teena just doesn't look for Nordstromy sitting there, with his red hair slick up in a pompadour, his girth squeezing out between his black leather jacket and the lip of his jeans, gumball machine rings decorating every single one of his fingers. But it's hen he goes from Bach to Great Balls of Fire that we attract the attention of the Nordfuck's militia. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

My first album came out in 1979. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

I'm from California, and still live in LA. — Teena Marie

Teena Quotes By Teena Marie

I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano. — Teena Marie