Cyndi Lauper Quotes

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Cyndi Lauper

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 22, 1953

I'm in the business where you get the business all the time.

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I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

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I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.

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My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.

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I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head.

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I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.

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The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.

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I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

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Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.

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I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

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Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

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When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.

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I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.

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You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing.

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Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.

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What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

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When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead.

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There have been great things that happened to me.

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I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

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Everything does go in a circle.

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