Quotes by Lesley Gore - Page 1

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Expression
Party
Want
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I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Kind
Wanted
Naturally
Life My Life Just
Just Kind
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You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Bites
Want
What You Want
Bite
Gotta
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I didn't disappear; I started writing songs and worked behind the scenes.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Disappear
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Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, everything that's wonderful, Is sure to come your way
Lesley Gore / Singer
Lollipop
Rainbow
Sunshine
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I still get a chill when I sing, 'You Don't Own Me.' I find some new feeling in it every time.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Chill
Time Me New
Every Time
Sing
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Don't tell me what to do, don't tell me what to say. And please, when I go out with you, don't put me on display.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Display
Please
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One night I saw them kissing at a party, so I kissed some other guy. Johnny jumped up and hit him, cause he still loved me, that's why.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Kissing
Party
Revenge
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I worked with Carl Perkins on a number of shows. Live shows. He just showed up and played. He just killed. Killed! Man... he was amazing!
Lesley Gore / Singer
Live Shows
Perkins
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And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Adversity
Character
Confusion
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I can remember in the early 60s that there were a couple of really dynamic women performers at the time - Brenda Lee, there was Connie Francis.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Couple
Performers
Remember
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And that's what got me to the piano, that's what got me up in the morning: a blank piece of paper and a hope to have something by the end of the day.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Morning
Piano
The End Of The Day
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I think that in many ways, gays are behind women and behind blacks, as far as rights go. But I always say, if you know one of us, it's hard to hate us.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Blacks
Gays
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Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Positive
Attitude
Faces
Positive Attitude
Problem
Face
Through
Gotta
Otherwise
Problems
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Frankly, if 'American Idol' was the way I'd have to audition as a singer, I'd be standing behind the counter in a 5&10 right now. I couldn't have done it that way.
Lesley Gore / Singer
American Idol
Standing
Audition
Counter
Frankly
Singer
Idol
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I've listened to Eminem rap. That's not daily fare for me, but I can't help but admire how vivid what he does is. My own taste goes a little more toward Norah Jones.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Admire
My Own
Rap
Taste
Vivid
Me More Help
Daily
Eminem
Fare
Goes
Help
Listened
Norah
Norah Jones
Toward
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We recorded the record on a Saturday afternoon March 30th and I heard the record for the first time on April 6th. I was driving to school, literally seven days later.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Afternoon
April
First Time
March
Saturday
Time School First Time
Literally
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I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Morning
Musician
Thinking
Wake Up
Writing
Morning Day Every Day
Turned
Wake
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I have a bit of a problem with 'American Idol.' Forgive me, but it's difficult for me to watch. I can't help but think of people being exploited. On the other hand, I'm really enjoying 'Glee.'
Lesley Gore / Singer
American Idol
Forgive Me
Glee
Me People Difficult
Enjoying
Exploited
Forgive
Me Difficult People
Idol
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I think the record industry, by and large what's left of it, is still totally homophobic. I think it's much less so in the film industry now, but the record industry, it's always been a man's world.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Men
Film Industry
Records
Thinking
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I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are probably two gay people in the whole damn town.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Damn
Differences
Gay
Midwest
Towns
Two
Life Gay People
Small Towns
Young People
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I had an opportunity to meet Elvis, only once. It was at the MGM Grand. It was certainly not at the height of his career. No, it wasn't at the height of his career, but it was still a thrill to see him and meet him anyway. You know?
Lesley Gore / Singer
Height
Mgm
Thrill
Anyway
Elvis
Grand
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I decided to host a couple of the 'In The Life' programs. And I did that really as a result of meeting a lot of young gay people in the Midwest who really had nothing to relate to. At least I felt this program is presenting them with some options.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Host
Midwest
Presenting
Program
Relate
Programs
Meeting
Options
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I have nothing but the best memories of growing up in New Jersey. Of course, I grew up in a nice town, a suburb. But Tenafly was right next to Englewood, which had a tremendous amount of racial tension in the '60s. So I was aware of the real world.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Jersey
Memories
New Jersey
Real World
Tension
Best World New
Tremendous
Racial
Suburb
The Real World
Tremendous Amount
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I don't know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Morning
Blank
Lifestyle
Paper
Preparing
Song
Writing
Go For It
Oyster
Piece
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When I wake up in the morning, and I go to the piano, and there's a blank sheet of paper in front of me, by the end of the day, that could be a gold mine. You really do need to wake up and expect that the world is your oyster because it very well may be.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Blank
Gold
Paper
Wake Up
End Of The Day
Oyster
Sheet
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Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for the show we're doing at Joe's Pub, so it's kind of fun to get down and rehearse new things, and also rethink some of the older songs, how we're going to do them.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Fun
New Songs
New Things
Song
Years
Funny Thing
Older
Joe
Pub
Rehearse
Rethink
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I wouldn't go so far as to make 'You Don't Own Me' a tango or 'It's My Party' a hip-hop thing. Believe me, those things have been suggested to me. But I thought if I could stay true to the song, the arrangements would work. I'm really enjoying singing them.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Arrangements
If I Could
Stay True
Tango
Work Believe Me
Enjoying
Suggested
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You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Communication
Men
Beautiful
Capable
Communication Skills
Sensitive
Skills
Great Beautiful Man
Fortunately
Human Being
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You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Travel
Country
Thinking
Traveled
Begin
Inadvertently
Interesting Thing
Quite A Bit
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Given that there was that era of girl group music and it's still very popular, but I think if you looked at the chart from that time you would see many more men on it. Because the industry, they were catering to young girls. I mean, that's what they thought their audience was.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Men
Catering
Mean Girls
Thinking
Chart
Popular
Young Girls
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As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to have talents, and, very often, we think that we know what our talents are, or we find out through a back door that we have a talent. I know that I found out I was a lyricist quite through a back door.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Collaboration
Essence
Back Door
Talents
Lyricist
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On 'Sullivan,' you sang live. Not only that, you sang with a 40-piece band. So you had instruments that weren't even on the original record! So this was when the rubber met the road - when you had to really learn how to perform. And it was for 10 or 12 million people. So that was a challenge.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Band
Instruments
Rubber
Perform
Original
Challenge
Met
Sang
Million
Million People
Road
Sullivan
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I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. I worked for people like Robert Kennedy and I thought: 'Wow, that's what it's about. That's how you change the world.' And then I watched that disintegrate in front of my eyes, and it was very discouraging.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Discouraging
Noble
Profession
Watched
Change The World
Robert
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The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instead of my lesson, the piano player and I went into a studio... and we put down some demos... Those demos got to Quincy Jones through an agent... He listened to them, he called me, and we started to record.
Lesley Gore / Singer
Demos
Short Story
Truth Is
Vocal
Agent
Lesson
Listened
Piano Player
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