Quotes by Abbey Lincoln - Page 1

Sing a song correctly and you live forever.
Abbey Lincoln / Vocalist
Forever
Live Forever
Song
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You can never loose a thing If it belongs to you.
Abbey Lincoln / Vocalist
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The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.
Abbey Lincoln / Vocalist
Heart
Speak
World
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I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.
Abbey Lincoln / Vocalist
Holiday
Yeah
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I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.
Abbey Lincoln / Vocalist
Brushes
Couches
Paint
Therapists
Couch
Lay
Therapist
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I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.
Abbey Lincoln / Vocalist
Music
Singing
Voice
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We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.
Abbey Lincoln / Vocalist
Hair
Memories
Skins
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I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.
Abbey Lincoln / Vocalist
Music
Forever
Thinking
Tomorrow
Substantial
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I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
Abbey Lincoln / Vocalist
Cabinets
If I Could
Looks
People
Music Look People
Cabinet
For The People
Music Look Looking
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It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.
Abbey Lincoln / Vocalist
Albums
Armstrong
Carter
Given
Great People
Max
People
Great Me People
Louis
Album
Benny
Duke
Meeting
Met
Relationships
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I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
Abbey Lincoln / Vocalist
Chicago
Radio
Second World War
World War I
War World Must
War World Remember
Brothers
Farm
Overseas
World War
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But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.
Abbey Lincoln / Vocalist
Done
Prove
Trying
Want
Afford
Done Me Anything
Madonna
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There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.
Abbey Lincoln / Vocalist
Men
Input
Men And Women
Outlook
Outlook On Life
People
Streets
Life Men Women
Crowd
Current
Life Women Men
Quarter
Seemed
Spare
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I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.
Abbey Lincoln / Vocalist
Music
New York
Unhappy
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