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Peabo Bryson
American
Musician
About the author
I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.
Peabo Bryson,
American
Musician
#Fun
#Being
#Artist
I'm not angry at anyone.
Peabo Bryson,
American
Musician
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,
American
Musician
#Nothing
#Play
I think you create your own hipness.
Peabo Bryson,
American
Musician
If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.
Peabo Bryson,
American
Musician
I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.
Peabo Bryson,
American
Musician
#Want
For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.
Peabo Bryson,
American
Musician
#Sense
#Spirituality
I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.
Peabo Bryson,
American
Musician
#Food
I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.
Peabo Bryson,
American
Musician
#Sense
#Trying
#Job
I have to choose songs that represent my personality.
Peabo Bryson,
American
Musician
#Songs
#Personality
I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.
Peabo Bryson,
American
Musician
#Being
#Light
#Talent
#Spiritual
#Gifts
But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.
Peabo Bryson,
American
Musician
#Attitude
#Sleep
I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.
Peabo Bryson,
American
Musician
Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.
Peabo Bryson,
American
Musician
#Music
There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.
Peabo Bryson,
American
Musician
#Time
#American
#History
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,
American
Musician
#People
#Country
#Knight
The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.
Peabo Bryson,
American
Musician
#Greatness
#Obscurity
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,
American
Musician
#People
#Being
#Sense
#Music
#Content
#Happiness
#Answers
#Thoughts
#Giving
#Oneness
Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.
Peabo Bryson,
American
Musician
#Life
It doesn't mean that I won't be sexy or hip or anything like that.
Peabo Bryson,
American
Musician
In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.
Peabo Bryson,
American
Musician
#Years
#Guitar
If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.
Peabo Bryson,
American
Musician
#Life
#Music
Trends don't mean very much.
Peabo Bryson,
American
Musician