Peabo Bryson

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.

If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.

Trends don't mean very much.

I'm not angry at anyone.

In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.

I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.

For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.

It doesn't mean that I won't be sexy or hip or anything like that.

I like that sense of we're all on the same page and trying to get the job done.

I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.

There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.

If you think about it, Aretha did basically the same things that I do.