Vandross Luther Quotes & Sayings

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being. — Brian Eno

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period. — Luther Vandross

God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly. — Ellen G. White

My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved. — Luther Vandross

The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet. — Luther Vandross

I'd love to a duet with Luther Vandross. — Sheena Easton

In the far corner, a tenor began to sing, Zsadist's crystal-clear voice sailing up toward the warrior paintings on the ceiling far, far above them all. At first John didn't know what the song was ... although if he'd been asked what his name was, he would have said Santa Claus, or Luther Vandross, or Teddy Roosevelt.
Maybe even Joan Collins. — J.R. Ward

Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal. — Tobias Dantzig

It's ironic, really, isn't it? Nineteen-year age gap, and it's the old bloke who comes in his pants, and the twenty-something with performance issues. — Jay Northcote

I can't ignore what I grew up listening to. My parents used to listen to Michael Jackson non-stop. They used to listen to Luther Vandross, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder. — Fleur East

Most importantly for me growing up, it was a spirituals, it was a gospels, it was James Cleveland, Aretha Franklin, Marion Williams; and then it was Curtis Mayfield - The Main Ingredient, The Whispers, Black Blue Magic, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross - that music helped me preserves my sanity, help me preserve whatever dignity I was able to preserve, helping to keep going. It was a source of tremendous strength in my life. — Cornel West

Don't want to hear my favorite rapper doin' a love song. If I want to hear something soft, I'll throw on Luther Vandross. — Ice Cube

See, I'm not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the shelf. I'm sort of a rise-to-the-occasion-type of writer, so when I know I'm going to record, I get in the mood to write. — Luther Vandross

Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill. — Anne Frank

All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road. — Luther Vandross

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke. — Luther Vandross

How I'd love, love, love, to dance with my Father again ... — Luther Vandross

And yet
to wine, to opium even, I prefer
the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself;
and in the wasteland of desire
your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst. — Charles Baudelaire

One look in your eyes and there I see just what you mean to me. Here in my heart I believe your love is all I'll ever need — Luther Vandross

Whenever I say goodbye its never for long because I believe in the power of love. — Luther Vandross

When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died. — Luther Vandross

I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their concerts and including gospel songs in their concert, and, you know, people started embracing it. — Yolanda Adams

There's something odd about working 24/7, being consumed with everything that's happening in Iraq, and then coming back to the country that ordered you over there only to realize that a lot of Americans are not really paying attention. — Phil Klay

Prince didn't want to sound like Michael Jackson. Neither of them wanted to sound like Luther Vandross. They didn't want to sound like David Bowie. They were all different, but brilliant. — Warryn Campbell

A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like on record. If I had total control, I would do a lot of the old songs - not only my songs but Sam Cooke songs, Luther Vandross, melody songs. That's what I would really do if I had an opportunity to do a record. — Darlene Love

Superman can fly high way up in the sky
'cause we believe he can. So what we choose to believe can always work out fine ... It's all in the mind. — Luther Vandross