Cyndi Lauper quotes

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Car #Age #Refuse

Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Beautiful #Girl #Boys

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Messages #Serious #Humour

If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Weed #Strong #People

People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Thinking #People #Important

It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Differences #Lessons #Strange

Everything does go in a circle.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Circles #Doe

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.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Space #Different #Would Be

On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Color

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.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Stars #Angel #Hands

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Failing

My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Hands #Ducks #Feet

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Successful #Hard Times #Path

I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Rooms #Rivalry #Planets

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.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Rocks #Answers #Jazz

There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Thinking #People #Giving

I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?
-- Cyndi Lauper

#People #Doe #Alternatives

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Taken #Rights #Family And Friends

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.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Writing #School #Band

My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#People #Joyful

When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Song #Emotion #Stage

The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Practice #Study #Stills

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.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#People #Creative #Brave

When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Vision

Sharon Osbourne is such a blast and she's so, so bright.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Blast #Sharon

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

#Girl #Men #Thinking

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

#Grammy

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Art #Independence #Good Business

I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Hair #Color #Wigs

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

#Albums #Needed #Wanted

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Speech #Language #Rhythm

I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Song #Records

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

I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Thinking #People #Giving

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

#Lines #Sides #Endure

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#People #Judging #Looks

If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Makeup #Saws

If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Wall #Way #Steps

You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Laughing

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Hate #Mean #Men

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Queens #Ocean #Bridges

It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#People #Pulse #Able

Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Fashion #Reading #Makeup

You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Children #Kids #World

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

#Mother #Kids #Littles

If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Song #Heart #Thinking

In the darkest place, shed the brightest light.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Light #Shed

Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Lines #Want #Bottom

Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Mind #Sometimes

I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll go blind.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Hey #Stitches #Nine

If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Friendship #Fall #Waiting

I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Friendship #Unconditional Love #Remember

If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Funny #Running #Dumb

Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Animal #Peaceful #Use

You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Hair #Color #Nine

People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Rocks #Clothes #People

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

#Drink #Used

It is not a dirty word, 'feminism'. I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else. ... The problem is, 'A feminist looks like this, or is like that'. We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Dirty #Men #Thinking

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.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Feet #Want #Fabulous

Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Clothes #Complaining #Loud

And I'll see your true colors shining through I see your true colors and that's why I love you so don't be afraid to let them show your true colors, true colors are beautiful like a RAINBOW...
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Beautiful #Love You #Color

If we truly want to end youth homelessness... then we have to invest in prevention and support communities as they work to implement these life-changing efforts.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Life Changing #Support #Effort

Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Music #Angel #People

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.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Art #Careers #Organization

You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Flower #Gay #Lgbt

When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Giving #Fame

Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Shoes #Enough

People used to complain to me all the time, 'I can't even hear you sing because your clothes are so loud.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Clothes #People #Singing

When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Girl #Fun #Work

Everyone—whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender—should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Gay #Bisexual #Color

With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Able #Fame

God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.
-- Cyndi Lauper

#Sleep #Worry #Important