Peabo Bryson

“Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.”

“If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.”

“Trends don't mean very much.”

“The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.”

“There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.”

“I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.”

“I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.”

“If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.”

“I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.”

“Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.”

“I have to choose songs that represent my personality.”

“I'm not angry at anyone.”

“I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.”

“In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.”

“There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.”

“If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.”

“I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.”

“I think you create your own hipness.”

“It doesn't mean that I won't be sexy or hip or anything like that.”

“Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.”