Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE , known professionally as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s. With her distinctive sensual mezzo-soprano sound, she was an important blue-eyed soul singer and at her peak was one of the most successful British female performers, with six top 20 singles on the United States Billboard Hot 100 and sixteen on the United Kingdom Singles Chart from 1963 to 1989. She...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth16 April 1939
CityLondon, England
Dusty Springfield quotes about
The only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man.
I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.
I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.
I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.
I burp like everyone else and I'm promiscuous.
Whatever your personal political feelings are, if you become involved in them publicly you're bound to come out the loser.
Sometimes you have to let people down in order to get on, particularly in showbusiness.
A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.
Sometimes the ladies involved give too much of themselves, sometimes not enough.
Basically I'm a drag queen myself.
I try to be as unsexy as possible.
A lot of people say I’m bent and I’ve heard it so many times I’ve almost learned to accept it ... I couldn’t stand to be thought of as a big butch lady. But I know I’m as perfectly capable of being swayed by a girl as by a boy. More and more people feel that way and I don’t see why I shouldn’t.
I used so much hairspray that I feel personally responsible for global warming!
You don't have to say you love me, just be close at hand. You don't have to stay for ever, I will understand.