Odetta famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.
-- Odetta

#Feels
If your neighbor looks at you like they don't enjoy the key you're singing in, look right back, bless them, and keep on singing.
-- Odetta

#Keys #Singing #Looks
No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim.
-- Odetta

#Dignity #Claims
Youâ€™re walking down lifeâ€™s road, societyâ€™s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you canâ€™t get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.
-- Odetta

#Lying #Feet #Down And
The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.
-- Odetta

#Sorrow #Celebration #Turns
You’re walking down life’s road, society’s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can’t get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.
-- Odetta

#Lying #Feet #Down And

Its sort of my job to feel good.
Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
Not just a timely movie, a great one...Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.
I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.
I just feel like I have a lot to prove.
I know this because I understand now what love really feels like. The kind that consumes you. Love holds the power to break you. It holds the power to complete you.
If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.
For something to hurt that bad, and feel so good, it's just inexplicable.
I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.

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