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Top 20 Anita Baker Quotes (2025 Update)

Anita Baker Quote: “I think there’s no sacrifice too great for family, whether it’s career, singing, whatever.”

1. “I think there’s no sacrifice too great for family, whether it’s career, singing, whatever.”

— Anita Baker

Anita Baker Quote: “If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don’t easily conform to what the masses are doing, you’re looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.”

2. “If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don’t easily conform to what the masses are doing, you’re looked upon as being difficult. Whereas, I think of it as just being an individual.”

— Anita Baker

Anita Baker Quote: “I say if it’s going to be done, let’s do it. Let’s not put it in the hands of fate. Let’s not put it in the hands of someone who doesn’t know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.”

3. “I say if it’s going to be done, let’s do it. Let’s not put it in the hands of fate. Let’s not put it in the hands of someone who doesn’t know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.”

— Anita Baker

Anita Baker Quote: “When you’re away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it’s an ugly fact of life.”

4. “When you’re away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it’s an ugly fact of life.”

— Anita Baker

Anita Baker Quote: “I’m in love, sweet love. Feel me calling out your name, I feel no shame.”

5. “I’m in love, sweet love. Feel me calling out your name, I feel no shame.”

— Anita Baker

Anita Baker Quote: “I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn’t have a vocalist. I didn’t get paid. I needed to sing.”

6. “I used to sing at funeral homes for families that didn’t have a vocalist. I didn’t get paid. I needed to sing.”

— Anita Baker

Anita Baker Quote: “I have as many pictures of my vocal cords as I do of my children. I have a great ear, nose and throat doctor, and we look at them – if there’s some redness, maybe I’ll take a little time off.”

7. “I have as many pictures of my vocal cords as I do of my children. I have a great ear, nose and throat doctor, and we look at them – if there’s some redness, maybe I’ll take a little time off.”

— Anita Baker

Anita Baker Quote: “My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, ‘Life is short. Do what you want to do.’”

8. “My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, ‘Life is short. Do what you want to do.’”

— Anita Baker

Anita Baker Quote: “I’m picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it’s not fun, I’m not going to do it.”

9. “I’m picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it’s not fun, I’m not going to do it.”

— Anita Baker

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Anita Baker Quote: “I’d love to be the political voice of my generation, but that’s not my gift.”

10. “I’d love to be the political voice of my generation, but that’s not my gift.”

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Anita Baker Quote: “Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best.”

11. “Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best.”

— Anita Baker

Anita Baker Quote: “If I could be doing anything, I’d be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.”

12. “If I could be doing anything, I’d be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.”

— Anita Baker

Anita Baker Quote: “I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.”

13. “I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.”

— Anita Baker

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Anita Baker Quote: “Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, ‘How does it feel?’ And that always leads to love songs. It just does.”

14. “Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, ‘How does it feel?’ And that always leads to love songs. It just does.”

— Anita Baker

Anita Baker Quote: “Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, but learn to love what you have.”

15. “Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, but learn to love what you have.”

— Anita Baker

Anita Baker Quote: “Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.”

16. “Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.”

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Anita Baker Quote: “Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.”

17. “Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.”

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Anita Baker Quote: “As soon as you get off stage, that’s the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.”

18. “As soon as you get off stage, that’s the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.”

— Anita Baker

Anita Baker Quote: “I’m used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.”

19. “I’m used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.”

— Anita Baker

Anita Baker Quote: “Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it’s what you do.”

20. “Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it’s what you do.”

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Anita Baker Quote: “I need my career. That’s what validates me.”

21. “I need my career. That’s what validates me.”

— Anita Baker

Anita Baker Quote: “I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don’t write to fill up the album with my songs.”

22. “I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don’t write to fill up the album with my songs.”

— Anita Baker

Anita Baker Quote: “It’s impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn’t come.”

23. “It’s impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn’t come.”

— Anita Baker

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