Latest Chaka Khan Quotes from Interviews

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• I loved him [Prince], the world loved him.Now he's at peace with his Father.Rest in power, Prince , my brother.

  Chaka Khan

  Brother, Father, World

  FaceBook post by Chaka Khan from Apr 21, 2016

• If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.

  Chaka Khan

  Fighting, World, Fields

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I won't become a household word, or achieve the fame I deserve in my lifetime because of the way I look.

  Chaka Khan

  Looks, Way, Lifetime

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• A song is not going to change this damn world. Instead of making people mad about this shitty situation, it's going to make everybody happy. It's a false thing. It's like a lullaby as opposed to a gun. People need to be slapped into reality and music just doesn't do that.

  Chaka Khan

  Song, Gun, Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible - it's the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o'clock during Lent. It's a totally negative, man-made religion.

  Chaka Khan

  Morning, Men, Class

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I control my life and I have never let success run away with me - I've taken it and ran. And the only thing that could threaten my stability is me - I'm my only threat and my own worst enemy. Beyond that, I don't feel successful. I'm nowhere near where I plan to be as far as my goals.

  Chaka Khan

  Running, Taken, Successful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• America breeds ambition and while that can be a good thing, sometimes it's not. Ambition also breeds competition and that can be a very bad thing. People become chronically preoccupied with competing and don't know when to stop. It can become unhealthy.

  Chaka Khan

  Ambition, America, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.

  Chaka Khan

  Mother, Father, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There is no perfect love - that's something I'm very realistic about.

  Chaka Khan

  Perfect, Perfect Love, Realistic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm an extremely determined person. I'm very serious about what I do.

  Chaka Khan

  Serious, Determined, Persons

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings. ... You can't argue with the universe. It's not about that. It's more about relaxing and knowing that you can handle it and feeling empowered. Knowing you have the power to do whatever the hell you want to do. That's what it's about. It really is.

  Chaka Khan

  Heart, Knowing, Feelings

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings.

  Chaka Khan

  Heart, Warning, Path

  Source: www.today.com

• I would have been an archaeologist or something, maybe a historian. There are a lot of things I would have liked to have done differently, but everything that happened to me made me the person I am today. No matter how negative it seemed at the time or whatever hardship it seemed to have been at that time, Im just the sum of all those amazing experiences.

  Chaka Khan

  Today, Negative, Done

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• I want to give some positive messages and to empower some people.

  Chaka Khan

  People, Giving, Empowering

  Source: www.today.com

• Spirituality has played an amazing part. Its been paramount in my life.

  Chaka Khan

  Spirituality, Paramount

  Source: www.today.com

• Every personal experience of my life impacts my music. I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back. I often fix it or color it differently or give it in my way, but thats what its about.

  Chaka Khan

  Impact, Color, Giving

  Source: www.today.com

• I can only give what I have. And when I receive, I give it back.

  Chaka Khan

  Giving, I Can

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• Every personal experience of my life impacts my music.

  Chaka Khan

  Impact, Personal Experiences

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• I have some scars... lots of internal ones. But they're all scabbed over.

  Chaka Khan

  Scar, Internals

  Source: www.nbcnews.com