Best 16 quotes of Roberta Flack on MyQuotes

As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

Getting married is easy. Staying married is more difficult. Staying happily married for a lifetime is among the fine arts.

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.

Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

Strumming my pain with his fingers, singing my life with his words, killing me softly with his song.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes

There's a river somewhere that flows through the lives of everyone.

Tonight, we will both discover, how friends turn into lovers, when I make love to you.

Walking in the dark, seeing lovers do their thing. That's the time, I feel like making love to you.