#u

I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#i #i do #music #really #why

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother. ↗

— Diana Ross

#child #even #i #mother #single

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#character #deformed #human #once #opens

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#being #being famous #doing #gets #sometimes

When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#i #lessons #life #me #my life

I like to think of myself as a humanitarian. ↗

— Seal

#i #like #myself #think

When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl. ↗

— Samantha Mathis

#girl #i #innocent #perceived #sweet

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. ↗

— Henri Matisse

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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#etc #himself #must #never #prisoner

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#efforts #enable #express #her #him