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  • Singer
  • born 1949
  • 55 quotes

Gloria Gaynor, a singer (born 1949), is quoted 55 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Thinking, Stage, Long and Careers.

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I started out doing covers.

I had a fear of being alone.

So you're back from outer space.

Personally I prefer Gospel music.

I think I sound like Barry White.

I still love a variety of kinds of music.

When I'm on stage, all is right with the world.

Even as a very small child I used to talk to God.

I study the Bible and spend time on the Internet.

I've written about one song on several different albums.

I have never been a different person onstage than I am off.

I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give

I loved the fact that I could get on stage and be in control.

God allows circumstances to build us up. God has got our back.

I have been nervous before, but I have never had stage fright.

My look is always glitzy for New Year's Eve, even if I am at home.

Actually I'm more passionate about dancing than I am about singing.

There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.

First I have a collection of all of the albums I've ever done, on vax.

I will survive For as long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive.

One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'

All through my young life I wanted to sing, although nobody in my family knew it.

I've written a lot of songs but I haven't had the opportunity to record a lot of them.

God was in control, and I was just pliable enough to say yes to wherever He would lead.

Performing was easy because I believed that I could sing, but that was an outside thing.

The respect that you should have for one another-I never knew any of that. So I suffered.

Yes, too much emphasis is put on outward physical attributes in every area of American life.

None of my family had anything to do with show business, my life was totally foreign to them.

I agree that a well groomed appearance or a slovenly appearance says a lot about one's character.

My audience is often hands-up, standing and cheering and on tables and all of that kind of things.

Only if I could be known for being one of the world's greatest and most sincere Christian Evangelists.

Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.

That is what I liked about being on stage. I was comfortable there, and I could be myself with confidence.

That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.

The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

People are intimidated when they first meet me, but it doesn't take them long to realise I'm just an average person.

Well, for street clothes, a lot of what I wear is Jones New York. I am well-endowed in the derriere, and they can handle that.

Low self-esteem comes from who you assess yourself to be. It's about who you are, and I didn't think I was anything or anybody.

Well, I was in a band. I was the singer with a band called the Soul Satisfiers. I sang then quite a bit of Jazz and some Top 40 stuff.

Music is my life. The only other thing I've done is office work in different places. But no real professional career other than singing.

A chic guy is in a suit. I don't care what kind of tie they wear. I don't care if they even wear a tie, as long as they can carry a suit.

Experimenting with drugs, drinking, doing this just enough to be accepted as one of the crowd, but I hated drugs, and I hated the taste of alcohol!

I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ.

Christ does not fulfill the human element, but he certainly fulfills every other need in your life. As far as I'm concerned, there's no better love affair.

I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up, we can talk about something else... and I will pray for you.

My grandmother went to church, but my mother had been inundated with church and decided that when she had children, she would not push church or God on her children.

I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers.

At first I was afraid, I was petrified, kept thinking I could never live without you by my side. But then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong, and I grew strong.

I have a European Fanclub that's based in Holland, and I had to have that President of the Fanclub to get me a number of recordings that I hadn't had the foresight to collect myself.

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