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Top 10 Abbey Lincoln Quotes (2025 Update)

Abbey Lincoln Quote: “I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.”
Abbey Lincoln Quote: “You can never loose a thing If it belongs to you.”
Abbey Lincoln Quote: “We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It’s our memory banks.”
Abbey Lincoln Quote: “The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.”
Abbey Lincoln Quote: “I don’t have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.”
Abbey Lincoln Quote: “But I’ve been there and done that. I’m not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it’s not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying.”
Abbey Lincoln Quote: “I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.”
Abbey Lincoln Quote: “Sing a song correctly and you live forever.”
Abbey Lincoln Quote: “There are men and women still on the streets, and that’s all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.”
Abbey Lincoln Quote: “It’s a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.”
Abbey Lincoln Quote: “I think that’s what really a substantial work is, it’s forever. It’s the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.”
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