#out

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#figure #i #life #me #means

I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#church #could #had #i #loud

Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#come #else #everybody #everybody else #experience

So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#educated #found #happened #integration #more

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#before #first #first time #got #heard

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#age #day #living #stop #time

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes! ↗

— Noel Redding

#got #knowing #once #point #record

Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that. ↗

— Noel Redding

#fat #had #i #mattress #outlet

There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#human #human being #magic #out #perfect

I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#chaos #classical #classical music #craved #happening