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If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.
— Anita Baker
I need my career. That's what validates me.
— Anita Baker
We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages - we don't throw it away all at once.
— Robert A. Cook
I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.
— Anita Baker
Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love songs. It just does.
— Anita Baker
I think there's no sacrifice too great for family, whether it's career, singing, whatever.
— Anita Baker
You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.
— Deepak Chopra
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,
Which, to admire, we should not understand — William Congreve
Which, to admire, we should not understand — William Congreve
In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.
— Anita Baker
I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.
— Anita Baker
You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
— Anita Baker
Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have.
— Anita Baker
I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn't have a vocalist. I didn't get paid. I needed to sing.
— Anita Baker
It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.
— Anita Baker
Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
— A.E. Housman
Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.
— Anita Baker
Authority. The antithesis of science.
— Stephen Baxter
The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.
— Ernie Isley
I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.
— Anita Baker
When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.
— Anita Baker
There are many things we only see
clearly in retrospect. — Haruki Murakami
clearly in retrospect. — Haruki Murakami
I will go to my grave believing that participation is best driven by the well-stocked shop window.
— Sebastian Coe
I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.
— Anita Baker
Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.
— Anita Baker
The beautiful word found by human being for the unseen feeling is love.
— Saravana Kumar Murugan