Anita Baker quotes

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.
- Anita Baker

Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.
- Anita Baker

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have.
- Anita Baker

I can't go anywhere until I finish this Christmas album, ... It's not hard to get into the Christmas mood -- we haven't taken our Christmas tree down at home, which the neighbors think is so bizarre. And it is. But this is a jazz Christmas album, so I don't have to be too traditional or mind too many rules. That's what's pulling me along.
- Anita Baker

I made numerous attempts to find a way to do it all, to be a creative singer, songwriter, producer, and to be the mother, daughter, sister, lover, wife. And the thing about music is, with me, that she's a harsh mistress. She does not come to me in the midst of stress.
- Anita Baker

I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.
- Anita Baker

Oh my goodness, they are rocking so many variations of my high-top fade. I mean, Rihanna has taken it to a very angular 21st Century thing. Miss Fantasia has it in a very seductive, you know, up-flip, and it's just lovely, right? Oh, I think it's wonderful.
- Anita Baker

When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.
- Anita Baker

I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift.
- Anita Baker

We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.
- Anita Baker

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.
- Anita Baker

They need to give people something to do around here instead of shoot at and kill one another.
- Anita Baker

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.
- Anita Baker

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.
- Anita Baker

My kids' eyes always light up. "Why are these people screaming over my mother". People around Detroit have made me cry, just walking up to me in the supermarket to say, "It's good to have you back.". It's been beautiful. Just absolutely beautiful.
- Anita Baker

It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.
- Anita Baker

As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.
- Anita Baker

Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, if you have that, but learn to love what you have.
- Anita Baker