When we first began, we didn't have any hits. Diana Ross More Quotes by Diana Ross More Quotes From Diana Ross Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know? Diana Ross do-you-know life-is knows I'm not really a songwriter - I'm an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart. Diana Ross heart song firsts I don't care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me. Diana Ross vacation going-away real I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature. Diana Ross deep-thought real animal Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm. Diana Ross black sports people I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I'm not involved in their careers because I've learned that it's important for them to stand on their own two feet. They'll feel better and prouder of themselves if they do. Diana Ross feel-better careers girl I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money. Diana Ross trust want reality If I'm with a man I'm soft and buttery. Diana Ross ifs men My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy. Diana Ross energy tails kids I'm from a singing family, but they're not professional singers, only gospel - my grandfather was a minister. I started to sing the music that was out then because my mother used to play it all the time. It was the end of the '50s, the beginning of the '60s. There was Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers, Etta James... We used to sit outside on the stoop and sing. We even used to put our radios and record players outside. Diana Ross teenager player mother I always wanted to be a fashion designer and I learned costume illustration in high school. That was an incredible high school. It was more like a college. I'm moving more in that direction, just kind of merchandising my name. Diana Ross fashion school moving I don't know what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into show business. Diana Ross show-business shows knows I use Jimmy Galanos gowns for real special occasions and things - television, special occasions where I know I'm being filmed. But I never really wear his gowns on stage. My stage gowns are more costumey. There's different levels of things that I wear.I would never wear my stage gowns to a party. Diana Ross party real special I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto. Diana Ross detroit ghetto used I'm crazy about Diane Von Furstenberg. It's a relationship that's very different; I don't see Diane a lot. So when I saw the article in New York magazine she looked so beautiful and it was talking about her work, too. She set up the interview and it was happening. That's different than someone writing a book about you who you've never met. Diana Ross crazy new-york beautiful People can take your name and write a book about you and they make money off of it. How is the public supposed to know you're not authorizing that book? As soon as you make a big stink about it it only makes the book sell more. Diana Ross names writing book It's not fair that our name can be used in any newspaper, any article connected with anything, and we can't really fight about it. It's like any newspaper that might take a picture of you, bad or good, and sometimes they're awful pictures, and they can use them without your approval and you can't do anything about it. Diana Ross fighting use names I just appreciate still having the longevity that I've had in my career. Diana Ross longevity appreciate careers Hair has always been important. Diana Ross important hair My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy. Diana Ross rags-to-riches rags riches
