Peabo Bryson Quotations

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.

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.

I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

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

For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

She and Celine Dion are my two favorite people in the entire world. I feel similar ways about Celine. I love her energy. I love being around her.

I'd like to think my music - especially Unconditional Love, is a representation of the philosophies and ideologies I want to share with you.

To have achieved something that represents music that is played long after my bones are dust, I don't look at it as an epitaph, although it could be.

Being at Windham Hill now has made me more appreciative of the people who still believe in the things that I believe in, that are a part of me.

Because there's so many intangibles about art. It's so personal in terms of whether it is good or bad. Or you like it or you don't like it.

I'm not angry at anyone.

I think you create your own hipness.

Trends don't mean very much.

But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.