Words matter. These are the best Betty Wright Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I respect women that have a voice and use it for a proper reason.
You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct.
I’ve just learned that love is a very fleeting thing, so we – then we have it; we need to hold on to it but hold on to it in a gracious fashion. Not in the smothering but more so just a covering kind of love.
Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come, because they know I love them all, and I ain’t judging nobody.
I’m tired of people disturbing the peace, getting on the radio and sounding a hot mess. If I can tell what the note really is, why let them go to the note they think it is? I’ve got that mama vibe. I don’t look at it with an ego.
There have always been female artists and singers putting bands together all the time. But we were not always getting credit for that because we didn’t know any better.
There’s always a time when you think you’ve done your last song or you’ve written your last rap or, you know, people are not checking for you.
‘Pain’ is more indicative of what I like to do. I’m lyric-conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a ‘Dear Abby’ column, I do it on records.
All of my babies know that I preach all day… I ain’t trying to hide no light under no bushel. Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come because they know I love them all, and I ain’t judging nobody.
I try to study the background of the country I am in and what were my hits there, so I can at least give them some of what they want. It’s like a wedding – give them something old, something new, something borrowed and definitely something blue!
I only intended to be married one time. But marriages are made; they don’t just happen. It takes two.
As long as you keep yourself in love with people, you can transcend time.
Sometimes when you have a song, you listen to it and say, ‘It’s OK. It’s music to drive to.’ But then there are songs where you can actually hear it as a movie.
I used to hate sampling, but it was basically because everyone was getting paid but us. But when they began to do the legislation and get it right, I realized that the kids just did something that, if maybe we were smart enough, we would have done it as well.
Compassion, not passion, keeps a marriage together.
I love competition because I’ve always run faster when somebody was running next to me.
I’m lyric conscious. I like to tell stories, give advice. Instead of writing a ‘Dear Abby’ column, I do it on records.
