Top 50 Toni Braxton Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I love my family, I’ll do anything for them.”

— Toni Braxton

2. “If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it’s the same for your heart.”

— Toni Braxton

3. “I can imagine you touching my private parts. With just the thought of you I can’t help, but touch myself.”

— Toni Braxton

4. “I like being in love. I want to be in love, but at this stage of my life, my career is, by far, the most important thing to me. It’s my passion.”

— Toni Braxton

5. “I learned that I had to believe in myself and not just to be comfortable with the opinions of others. I’m just more in control; I finalize everything.”

— Toni Braxton

6. “I’ll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.”

— Toni Braxton

7. “Like Scarlett O’Hara, I won’t be broke again.”

— Toni Braxton

8. “I’ve always tried to be positive. There’s a lot going on.”

— Toni Braxton

9. “The point may not be to make sense of the most difficult situations. It could be that we’re here to learn how to breathe through them.”

— Toni Braxton

10. “When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I’ll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn’t work, I know I can’t do that.”

— Toni Braxton

11. “How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn’t he catch my falling star? I wish I didn’t wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart.”

— Toni Braxton

12. “All I want is moonlight, with you there inside of me, all night, doing it again and again. You know I want you so bad.”

— Toni Braxton

13. “I’m a businesswoman who’s serious about her money. I want an empire.”

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14. “Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I’d pick my kids any day over any of it.”

— Toni Braxton

15. “Dating is different when you get older. You’re not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.”

— Toni Braxton

16. “I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life.”

— Toni Braxton

17. “Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That’s why I do what I do.”

— Toni Braxton

18. “I don’t smoke often, maybe once or twice a month, but it makes me feel sexy and romantic.”

— Toni Braxton

19. “You can never go back to the first two albums in a career.”

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20. “Some people say I’m kinda country, but I like to take risks on fashion. I kinda go left sometimes, so you can get a taste of my personality.”

— Toni Braxton

21. “I’d lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.”

— Toni Braxton

22. “Broadway, I have to memorize everything. You get one time to do it right.”

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23. “You lose the arrogance you need to be successful, but you need that arrogance because the second someone sees that side of you and chip at it, it’s over.”

— Toni Braxton

24. “I can’t record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.”

— Toni Braxton

25. “I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.”

— Toni Braxton

26. “Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.”

— Toni Braxton

27. “I often felt like I was walking around with this Scarlet Letter stitched to my chest from the way that people treated me.”

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28. “It sometimes makes me feel sexy to wear something revealing. But I have gone too far. I have to be honest about that.”

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29. “To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.”

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30. “But I don’t want to be out there anymore; I don’t want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.”

— Toni Braxton

31. “I let everybody else’s negative energy feed on me a little.”

— Toni Braxton

32. “My ideal kinda guy, if I was really gonna go there even though he’s married, is Mark Wahlberg. To me he’s a little black and white, the kinda guy who would understand if I pull my weave out.”

— Toni Braxton

33. “I’ve been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that’s it – the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.”

— Toni Braxton

34. “Our circumstances may be different – but the emotions that come with being human are what connect us all.”

— Toni Braxton

35. “Sad songs seem to work for me, but I don’t want to be redundant; I want to add a little flavor.”

— Toni Braxton

36. “If I’m uncomfortable, you’d never know.”

— Toni Braxton

37. “You don’t want a whole bunch of yes people around you.”

— Toni Braxton

38. “When I first go out on stage, there are tummy bubbles everywhere.”

— Toni Braxton

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39. “When I watched American Idol, I always thought Simon was the most realistic. Simon’s like, It was absolutely horrid. That’s what they tell in the music industry.”

— Toni Braxton

40. “I think that once an artist has proven herself and you sell lots of records, you should be compensated.”

— Toni Braxton

41. “I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.”

— Toni Braxton

42. “If anyone did any harm to my children, I don’t know what I would do.”

— Toni Braxton

43. “I was so glad I did Beauty and the Beast. I always wanted to act, and if the bankruptcy thing hadn’t happened, I wouldn’t have started acting.”

— Toni Braxton

44. “There are problems with the single already. I don’t want to put out the first single, Hit the Freeway.”

— Toni Braxton

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45. “I’ve always been able to do sprinkles of hip-hop here and there in all my albums, but I’m not sure how my fans are gonna feel about coming out first with something that’s so hip-hop.”

— Toni Braxton

46. “I do six shows a week. Sometimes my voice gets tired, but I love it.”

— Toni Braxton

47. “I felt that putting my all into the relationship would have taken me away from my career. And I couldn’t do that then.”

— Toni Braxton

48. “I look at other artists who have had fabulous first albums, and you don’t know what they’re doing today. Who’s to say I’ll be an exception to that rule?”

— Toni Braxton

49. “Will people think I’ve been dropped? Oh God, you don’t want people to think that. No one will want to touch you if they think you got dropped.”

— Toni Braxton

50. “I’m in love with kid’s stories and animation.”

— Toni Braxton

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