Because there's so many intangibles about art. It's so personal in terms of whether it is good or bad. Or you like it or you don't like it.
Being at Windham Hill now has made me more appreciative of the people who still believe in the things that I believe in, that are a part of me.
But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.
Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.
For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.
I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.
I have to choose songs that represent my personality.
I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.
I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.
I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.
I think you create your own hipness.
I'd like to think my music - especially Unconditional Love, is a representation of the philosophies and ideologies I want to share with you.
I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.
I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.
I'm not angry at anyone.
If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.
If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.
If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.
In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.
It doesn't mean that I won't be sexy or hip or anything like that.
Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.
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.
She and Celine Dion are my two favorite people in the entire world. I feel similar ways about Celine. I love her energy. I love being around her.
The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.
There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.
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.
To have achieved something that represents music that is played long after my bones are dust, I don't look at it as an epitaph, although it could be.
Trends don't mean very much.
Sang the 1987-1991 opening of long-running ABC soap opera, "One Life to Live" (1968).
Has had 7 hit songs all duets with some of the most prominent female artists in the industry. He won two Grammys in less than two years for two of his 7 duets both songs appeared on Disney soundtracks for Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast in 1992 and 1993 respectively.
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