Author: Susannah McCorkle

Quotes

Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.

Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.

- Susannah McCorkle

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

- Susannah McCorkle

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.

- Susannah McCorkle

If I love a song I hope to find a way to get other people to love it too.

If I love a song I hope to find a way to get other people to love it too.

- Susannah McCorkle

I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.

I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.

- Susannah McCorkle

When I dance, I love the romance and sexiness of it, and love having it be clear to both dancers that the man leads! But the man has to know what he's doing!

When I dance, I love the romance and sexiness of it, and love having it be clear to both dancers that the man leads! But the man has to know what he's doing!

- Susannah McCorkle

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.

- Susannah McCorkle

Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.

Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.

- Susannah McCorkle

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