Celia Cruz Quotes

You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public.

Celia Cruz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: cuban
  • Birth: October 21, 1925 - July 16, 2003

Topics

GoodMeVoiceBetterPlanYou

I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.

John Cale

LoveMeNeverNeedWordMeans

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

WrongInsultsWhoThoseEmployed

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

Michael Arad

LoveNew YorkNewOutsiderHere

Traveling is definitely something that your average 17-year-old doesn't get to do. One week we're in Japan, one week we're in Australia, one week we're back home going to football games.

Solange Knowles

HomeFootballWeekBackAustralia

'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'

Tom Colicchio

BestBossChefYouMeanCook

I remember when I was 12, talking with my friends about what we wanted to do with our lives, astronauts, forensic detectives, all these different jobs. And the only thing I could think was an actor.

Tony Revolori

ThinkFriendsTalkingRememberActor

Russia is now very far from being a communist country, but when I walked around Moscow, I kept glimpsing these haunting images. There were statues of Lenin and some neon signs of the hammer and sickle. I remembered myself then as a little girl, living under that oppression.

Martina Navratilova

GirlMyselfCountryNowLiving

I want everyone to express themselves in a unique way.

Miguel

UniqueWantWayEveryoneExpress

If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.

Minoru Yamasaki

WallsRedBetterYouLookWhite

I'm not selfish at all.

Judy Gold

Selfish

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

Joseph Wood Krutch

GodPeopleEnvironmentalSomething

When I was running the Troubadour, there was this transition from the classic singer/songwriter Jackson Browne types to bands like Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, and Fear. Those are just some that come to mind. Oh, and Adam Ant! The Fear fans wanted to 'crush' the Ants. These guys hated each other.

Jon Taffer

FearMindBlackTransitionFlag

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