Donna Summer Quotes & Trivia



Quotes

A friend of mine called and said they're interested in having you do a song for the new Pokemon. All my kids are grown up, so I'd heard of it, but I didn't really know what it was.

And I mean, I'm established. So I'm not worried about having a hit at this point in my career.

And no, having the hits is just more work.

Because I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things.

But I like to know that someone is stronger than I am. I want to be able to know that if I get tired, somebody is there to hold up the fort. I like knowing that I can't pick a refrigerator alone. God did not make me strong enough to do that.

But I think that I'm just a normal girl, you know.

God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.

I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.

I don't care if I'm beautiful; I don't care what I am on the outside. It isn't about the outside.

I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.

I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.

I haven't really been recording in the last several years. I haven't wanted to. And even though I had to deal with Sony and now I'm on Universal again, I will probably put out a new record soon.

I realized that I had a serious problem with depression, and I went to a doctor and he gave me some medication.

I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.

I'm ready to work and if it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it's fine.

If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell.

It would be nice if you have a hit. But I don't think it's necessary to continue with my career at this point.

Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.

My life was changed in one breath from God.

Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that.

Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.

When I'm not working I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible.

When you see these people that are in the public eye all the time, it must get tiring.

Trivia

Donna was the only black member of her first band The Crow.

Time magazine reports that "Love to Love You Baby" featured 22 orgasms by Donna.

Donna's successful music career has landed her as the eighth most successful recording artist in the history of Billboard behind contemporary female acts as Whitney Houston and Madonna among others.

She was later persuaded to record "Love to Love You Baby" lying on the floor of a pitch dark studio and imagined herself as an actress (Marilyn Monroe to be precise) playing the part of someone in that role.

She became the first female artist in music history to have two hits in the Billboard Top 3 at the same time (with "Hot Stuff" and Bad Girls".)

Her hit single "Melody of Love" became Billboard’s #1 Dance Record of the Year.

She has three daughters: Mimi, Brooklyn, and Amanda.

Donna was the first artist to score three consecutive U.S. #1 albums.

She ranked #37 on VH1's Greatest Women of Rock N Roll.

Measurements: 34 1/2-25-36 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

She placed a top forty pop hit in every year of her recording career from 1975's "Love to Love You Baby" to 1984's "There Goes My Baby".

Donna was one of the first to be inducted to the Dance Music Hall of Fame and was inducted twice.

Donna received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994.

She became a born-again Christian in 1979 after suffering a nervous breakdown.

Donna had 10 songs go to # 1 on one of Billboard's many different singles charts in the 1970's and was given the nickname of "Queen of Disco".