Anita Baker Quotes

• You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

  Anita Baker

  Family, Music, Home

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• If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.

  Anita Baker

  Thinking, Style, Doing You

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• Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it's what you do.

  Anita Baker

  Giving

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• I dont think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.

  Anita Baker

  Strong, Thinking, Black

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• I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

  Anita Baker

  Small Numbers, People, Trying

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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

  Birthday, Dumb, Junk

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• I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.

  Anita Baker

  Teaching, Learning, Fate

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• I'm in love, sweet love. Feel me calling out your name, I feel no shame.

  Anita Baker

  Sweet, Names, Calling

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• Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, but learn to love what you have.

  Anita Baker

  Beautiful, Long, Self Love

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• 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

  Fun, Stress, Term

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• I think there's no sacrifice too great for family, whether it's career, singing, whatever.

  Anita Baker

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Careers

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• 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

  Hate, Moving, Thinking

  "Break Time Is Over : Anita Baker's last album was in 1990. Then everyone thought she was lost to motherhood. Guess everybody forgot to ask the important person: Baker". Interview with Dennis Hunt, articles.latimes.com. September 18, 1994.

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• Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

  Anita Baker

  Hero, Issues, Generations

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• My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'

  Anita Baker

  Growing Up, Father, Life Is Short

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• 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

  Song, Doe, Albums

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• Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.

  Anita Baker

  Fall, Insecure, Artist

  "Break Time Is Over : Anita Baker's last album was in 1990. Then everyone thought she was lost to motherhood. Guess everybody forgot to ask the important person: Baker". Interview with Dennis Hunt, articles.latimes.com. September 18, 1994.

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• I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

  Anita Baker

  Age, Albums, Firsts

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• I need my career. That's what validates me.

  Anita Baker

  Careers, Needs

  "Break Time Is Over : Anita Baker's last album was in 1990. Then everyone thought she was lost to motherhood. Guess everybody forgot to ask the important person: Baker". Interview with Dennis Hunt, articles.latimes.com. September 18, 1994.

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• I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift.

  Anita Baker

  Voice, Political, Generations

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• Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

  Anita Baker

  Mom, Mother, Mean

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• 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

  Kissing, People, Singers

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• 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

  Song, Writing, Albums

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• 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

  Writing, Parent, Dying

  "Anita Baker Back After 10-Year Hiatus". www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2004.

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• I have as many pictures of my vocal cords as I do of my children. I have a great ear, nose and throat doctor, and we look at them - if there's some redness, maybe I'll take a little time off.

  Anita Baker

  Children, Doctors, Looks

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• I don't even have voice mail, and people get all out of shape about that. But, you know what, I don't want to transcribe your message; I want to talk to you. And that kind of freaks people out a bit. They go, 'Oh, who has time to talk?' and I'm like, 'Well, I'm gonna make time.

  Anita Baker

  Voice, People, Shapes

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