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Top 15 Lesley Gore Quotes (2025 Update)

Lesley Gore Quote: “It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to.”

1. “It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to.”

— Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore Quote: “Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, everything that’s wonderful, Is sure to come your way.”

2. “Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, everything that’s wonderful, Is sure to come your way.”

— Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore Quote: “Don’t tell me what to do, don’t tell me what to say. And please, when I go out with you, don’t put me on display.”

3. “Don’t tell me what to do, don’t tell me what to say. And please, when I go out with you, don’t put me on display.”

— Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore Quote: “Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don’t get through.”

4. “Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don’t get through.”

— Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore Quote: “I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do.”

5. “I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do.”

— Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore Quote: “I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn’t working.”

6. “I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn’t working.”

— Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore Quote: “You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.”

7. “You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.”

— Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore Quote: “Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I’ve got all these new songs to learn for the show we’re doing at Joe’s Pub, so it’s kind of fun to get down and rehearse new things, and also rethink some of the older songs, how we’re going to do them.”

8. “Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I’ve got all these new songs to learn for the show we’re doing at Joe’s Pub, so it’s kind of fun to get down and rehearse new things, and also rethink some of the older songs, how we’re going to do them.”

— Lesley Gore

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Lesley Gore Quote: “You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man’s world. Fortunately he’s a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he’s a capable human being and has great communication skills.”

9. “You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man’s world. Fortunately he’s a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he’s a capable human being and has great communication skills.”

— Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore Quote: “And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It’s character building.”

10. “And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It’s character building.”

— Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore Quote: “One night I saw them kissing at a party, so I kissed some other guy. Johnny jumped up and hit him, cause he still loved me, that’s why.”

11. “One night I saw them kissing at a party, so I kissed some other guy. Johnny jumped up and hit him, cause he still loved me, that’s why.”

— Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore Quote: “I can remember in the early 60s that there were a couple of really dynamic women performers at the time – Brenda Lee, there was Connie Francis.”

12. “I can remember in the early 60s that there were a couple of really dynamic women performers at the time – Brenda Lee, there was Connie Francis.”

— Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore Quote: “I don’t know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.”

13. “I don’t know any other lifestyle. I get up in the morning and I really do feel that the world is my oyster, and I start that way, the same as I would if I were preparing to write a song: put a blank piece of paper up on the piano and you go for it.”

— Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore Quote: “I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are probably two gay people in the whole damn town.”

14. “I meet a lot of young people in the Midwest, and I saw what a difference a show like In the Life can make to their lives in some of these small towns where, you know, there are probably two gay people in the whole damn town.”

— Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore Quote: “Given that there was that era of girl group music and it’s still very popular, but I think if you looked at the chart from that time you would see many more men on it. Because the industry, they were catering to young girls. I mean, that’s what they thought their audience was.”

15. “Given that there was that era of girl group music and it’s still very popular, but I think if you looked at the chart from that time you would see many more men on it. Because the industry, they were catering to young girls. I mean, that’s what they thought their audience was.”

— Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore Quote: “And that’s what got me to the piano, that’s what got me up in the morning: a blank piece of paper and a hope to have something by the end of the day.”

16. “And that’s what got me to the piano, that’s what got me up in the morning: a blank piece of paper and a hope to have something by the end of the day.”

— Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore Quote: “You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it’s sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit.”

17. “You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it’s sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit.”

— Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore Quote: “I think the record industry, by and large what’s left of it, is still totally homophobic. I think it’s much less so in the film industry now, but the record industry, it’s always been a man’s world.”

18. “I think the record industry, by and large what’s left of it, is still totally homophobic. I think it’s much less so in the film industry now, but the record industry, it’s always been a man’s world.”

— Lesley Gore

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