Quotes by Darlene Love - Page 1

I wish I started out as a solo artist.
Darlene Love / Singer
Solo
Solo Artist
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When I was a backup singer, I enjoyed it.
Darlene Love / Singer
Backup
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It means a lot to me, the sanctity of marriage.
Darlene Love / Singer
Marriage
Sanctity
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I love being married. I've been married three times.
Darlene Love / Singer
Married
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Background singers who are any good have to be great imitators.
Darlene Love / Singer
Singers
Good Great Who
Imitators
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There's nothing better than lifting somebody's spirit with music.
Darlene Love / Singer
Lifting
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A lot of the people who saw me in the 'Lethal Weapon' movies didn't even know I was a singer.
Darlene Love / Singer
Movies Me People
Lethal
Weapon
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Every step that I've taken was a learning lesson. Even to not think you're so big and so bad you can't fall.
Darlene Love / Singer
Fall
Taken
Thinking
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My father was a Pentecostal minister; that's how I was brought up. So I never thought of having a secular career.
Darlene Love / Singer
Pentecostal
Secular
Minister
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I never pushed to be a star. I didn't want to. I had my home, my family. Session work let you do the music and leave.
Darlene Love / Singer
Session
Family Work Home
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When people come and see me, I want them to experience joy. I don't do any sad songs in my show. It's to lift the spirit.
Darlene Love / Singer
Sad Experience Me
Lift
Sad Songs
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I am so thankful for the genius of Phil Spector, for his recognition of my talent to be the main voice of his Wall of Sound.
Darlene Love / Singer
Thankful
Recognition
Phil
Spector
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When you hate people, it not only makes you hate that person, it gives that vibe off for everything around you. I really do believe that.
Darlene Love / Singer
Vibe
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In church, they have the music where you jump and you shout, you know, and then you have the quiet music where you're sitting, you're meditating.
Darlene Love / Singer
Meditating
Quiet
Jump
Shout
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If you listen to most songs, most people will not sing the words of the lead singer. They will sing the hook. The hook is what makes the record sell.
Darlene Love / Singer
Hook
Lead Singer
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The Blossoms were actually the first black background singers that did recording sessions in California, but we had to start giving work away. We just couldn't do it all.
Darlene Love / Singer
California
Singers
Blossoms
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When I met Letterman, he told me he thought 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' was the greatest Christmas song he ever heard, and he wanted me to be on his show to sing it.
Darlene Love / Singer
Christmas
Letterman
Please
Home Me Song
Home Christmas Me
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I enjoyed every minute of what I was doing with sessions, because The Blossoms, the group that I was singing with, they were the first black background singers. There weren't any.
Darlene Love / Singer
Singers
Blossoms
Minute
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Nobody put the camera on the background singers who were singing. It was on Stevie Wonder. It was on Elton John. It was on whoever was the lead singer out front. We were 20 feet from stardom.
Darlene Love / Singer
Singers
Stardom
Stevie
Elton
Elton John
Lead Singer
Stevie Wonder
Whoever
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My pursuit was more in the music thing, so I never went out pursuing movies. It was more just pursuing my singing career because people came to me for singing more than they did for doing movies.
Darlene Love / Singer
Music Movies Me
Pursuing
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'If I Can Dream' is my all-time favorite Elvis song. It was a big record, but not as big as it could have been. It was one of those records where you'd think it sold 10 billion copies, but it didn't.
Darlene Love / Singer
All Time
Copies
Billion
Favorite
Elvis
Record
Sold
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I think, for a long time, people thought I was a figment of Phil Spector's imagination because they knew The Crystals, they knew The Ronettes, they knew Bob B. Sox and the Blue Jeans, but had never had met Darlene Love.
Darlene Love / Singer
Imagination
Blue
Blue Jeans
Crystals
Jeans
Long Time
Love Time Long
Met
Phil
Sox
Time People
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I know God loves me. I tell people all the time I'm one of his favorite childs. I had to believe in something bigger than me - bigger than man. I had to believe that God would send somebody across my path to keep my dreams alive.
Darlene Love / Singer
Send
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I always say that when I was recording with Phil Spector, he would not let me really sing, you know? And even to make me sound younger, he would speed the track up. He still wanted that real nice, little, quiet, sweet little sound.
Darlene Love / Singer
Quiet
Track
Phil
Spector
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The Blossoms had gotten so we were working seven days a week, three or four sessions a day, which was literally killing us, physically. With the instruments that the musicians play, they can do that, but not with us using our voices.
Darlene Love / Singer
Instruments
Physically
Blossoms
Musicians
Voices
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You just have to find a lawyer that won't let you sign certain things - and I mean the fine print, because I was gone from Phil Spector and signed with Gamble and Huff in Philadelphia, and Phil bought my record contract back from them.
Darlene Love / Singer
Fine
Fine Print
Gamble
Print
Bought
Certain Things
Contract
Record
Phil
Sign
Spector
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I get such joy out of performing for people, and you can tell whether they like you or they don't like you the minute you walk out on the stage. And they don't even have to tell me that they had a good time. I know they had a good time.
Darlene Love / Singer
Performing
Time Good Walk
Minute
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Well, it's my age group, anywhere from, I'd say 30 to 70. The biggest comment I get about the book is how honest it is and that people can relate to my circumstances going across the line. Anybody could learn and deal with this book from reading it.
Darlene Love / Singer
Book
People
Reading
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I worked with Dionne Warwick, did shows with Bette Midler, and then I did the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Springsteen at the Garden. It was all important stuff because you want people to know you can work, you can sing, and you can still look good!
Darlene Love / Singer
Anniversary
Garden
Rock And Roll
Springsteen
Work Good Important
Bette
Hall
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I'm always happy to be a part of history. When you're a part of history, you live forever. 'The T.A.M.I. Show' will live forever because now it's brand new. We did that 40-odd years ago, and people are really starting to see it now. I was a part of history when I recorded that show.
Darlene Love / Singer
Brand New
History Always People
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I've always wanted to work with Barbra Streisand because she's worked with some of the best background singers in the world who are friends of mine, worked with them in concert or on movie soundtracks, and I always say 'Now, where was I? Where was I when she was hiring people to work with her?'
Darlene Love / Singer
Hiring
Singers
Soundtracks
Streisand
Best Work World
Best Work Always
Barbra Streisand
Concert
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A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like on record. If I had total control, I would do a lot of the old songs - not only my songs but Sam Cooke songs, Luther Vandross, melody songs. That's what I would really do if I had an opportunity to do a record.
Darlene Love / Singer
Opportunity
Capture
Luther
Melody
Sound
Versus
Control
Cooke
Old
Total
Times
Record
Old Songs
Sam
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Your body knows how old you are, but if you keep on and you take care of yourself - you know, I go to kickboxing class every morning at 5 A.M. You know, try to do all the things to take care of the outside of your body, but you also should do - and have to do things that take care of the inside of your body.
Darlene Love / Singer
Take Care
Your Body
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I think we did our first session in 1958. There were no black background singers - there were only white singers. They weren't even called background singers; they were just called singers. I don't know who gave us the name 'background singers,' but I think that came about when The Blossoms started doing background.
Darlene Love / Singer
Session
Singers
Blossoms
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The whole idea is you can't sit around and do nothing. You have to get up and start living one day at a time. That's what I did my entire career. You can't sit around and say, 'Oh, poor me. Nobody likes me. Nobody is giving me a job.' You have to get up and go. If you sit at home and do nothing, that is what is going to happen.
Darlene Love / Singer
Likes
One Day At A Time
Time Home Me
Entire Career
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I know it was a gift from God. My father was a preacher and my mother worked in churches all her life. My father had a very deep bass sounding voice and my mother had an in-between soprano voice. Not great singers, but they had great tones to their voices. I think that had a lot to do with it. Also, I really believe my voice was a gift from God. I believe if you take care of it, He will help you take care of it.
Darlene Love / Singer
Believe
Father
Mother
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